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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Kairos Power finalizes contract on HALEU for Hermes
Kairos Power has finalized a contract with the Department of Energy to receive high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) from the agency for the company’s Hermes low-power demonstration reactor, currently under construction in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
In partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Kairos intends to use the DOE-provided material to produce HALEU TRISO fuel pebbles for Hermes. The company views the Hermes test reactor and the fuel fabrication program as crucial to the eventual success of its power-producing Hermes 2 demonstration plant, also to be sited in Oak Ridge, and future commercial fluoride salt–cooled high-temperature reactors.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EDT|Marriott 10
Session Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
Session Organizer:
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Design of a MiniFuel Irradiation Experiment to Study Fuel Performance Phenomena in Ceramic Fuels
8:00–8:20AM EDT
Jacob P. Gorton (ORNL), Joseph R. Burns (ORNL), J. Matthew Kurley (ORNL), Jonathan Chappell (ORNL), William F. Cureton (ORNL), N. Dianne Bull Ezell (ORNL), Andrew T. Nelson (ORNL)
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Irradiation Testing of Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) Fuel Compacts in the High Flux Isotope Reactor
8:20–8:40AM EDT
A.G. Le Coq (ORNL), Kory D. Linton (ORNL), Jason M. Harp (ORNL), Christian M. Petrie (ORNL)
LAMDA: Irradiated-Materials Testing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
8:40–9:00AM EDT
James Travis Dixon (ORNL), Amy J. Godfrey (ORNL)
Transient Testing Needs for TRISO Fuel in Reactivity Accidents
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Thermal Safety/Programmatic Results for the MP-2 B-11 Experiment in ATR
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Grant Hawkes (INL), Dong Choe (INL), Margaret Marshall (INL)
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