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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|Marriott 1
Session Chair:
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Sunil S. Chirayath (TAMU)
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Determination of Electron Beam Parameters Using Nelder-Mead Simplex Search Algorithm
3:15–3:35PM EDT
Andrew Rosenstrom (Georgia Tech), Mario Santana (SLAC), Sayed Rokni (SLAC), Shaheen Dewji (Georgia Tech), Ramish Ashraf (Stanford Univ. School of Medicine), Savros Melemenidis (Stanford Univ. School of Medicine), Rakesh Manjappa (Stanford Univ. School of Medicine), Billy W. Loo Jr. (Stanford Univ. School of Medicine)
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Overview on Analyses of Dose Rates During RID Parts Removal/Exchange
3:35–3:55PM EDT
I.I. Popova (ORNL), F. X. Gallmeier (ORNL)
Shielding Performance of Epoxy Matrix Composites Reinforced with HfB2 Nanoparticles
3:55–4:15PM EDT
Furkan Erdogan (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Microgravity Simulations Combined with Radiation Effects to Model Space Radiation Exposure
4:15–4:35PM EDT
Matthew Culbertson (Kansas State), Eric Giunta (Kansas State), Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State)
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