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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|10:00–11:45AM EDT|Marriott 10
Session Chair:
Simon M. Pimblott
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
Session Organizer:
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A Simple Modeling for Gas Release During Annealing of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel
10:00–10:20AM EDT
J. Losfeld (CEA), L. Desgranges (CEA), Y. Pontillon (CEA), G. Baldinozzi (CNRS)
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Critical Analysis of Force Balance Approach for Departure Diameter Prediction with High-Speed Photography
10:20–10:40AM EDT
Juan Pérez (Univ. Puerto Rico, Mayagüez), Silvina Cancelos (Univ. Puerto Rico, Mayagüez)
Pressurized Water Reactor Control Rod Ejection Analysis Using PARCS, RELAP5-3D, and BISON for High Burnup Fuel
10:40–11:00AM EDT
Isabelle Lindsay (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Mason Fox (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Seokbin Seo (INL), Ryan T. Sweet (INL), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Modeling and Measurement of Axial Gas Transport in Nuclear Fuels
11:00–11:20AM EDT
Chiara Genoni (INL), Kyle A. Gamble (INL), Fabiola Cappia (INL), Chase E. Christen (INL), Seongtae Kwon (INL), Kaustubh K. Bawane (INL)
BISON-Informed Whole Core TRISO Fuel Performance Modeling
11:20–11:40AM EDT
James B. Tompkins (Radiant Industries), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Roger Chin (Radiant Industries), Wen Jiang (INL), Ben Betzler (Radiant Industries)
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