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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC proposes rule changes in response to EO
In April, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14270, “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy,” which calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (along with the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency) to issue a “sunset rule” to effectively nullify certain regulations in no more than five years.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Marriott 9
Session Chair:
Jason Hou (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Reactor Physics Validation Roadmap for the High Flux Isotope Reactor Conversion to Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel
1:00–1:20PM EDT
D. Chandler (ORNL), J.W. Bae (ORNL), D. Hartanto (ORNL), C.W. Sizemore (ORNL), K.M. Burg (ORNL), J.R. Burns (ORNL)
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252Cf Production at the High Flux Isotope Reactor: Nuclear Data Selection and LEU Conversion Impacts
1:20–1:40PM EDT
D. Hartanto (ORNL), D. Chandler (ORNL), J.W. Bae (ORNL), J.R. Burns (ORNL), C. Sizemore (ORNL)
Isotope Production and Materials Irradiation Research Studies to Support HFIR LEU Conversion Assessment
1:40–2:00PM EDT
D. Chandler (ORNL), D. Hartanto (ORNL), J.W. Bae (ORNL), J.R. Burns (ORNL), J.R. Griswold (ORNL)
Peaking Factor Uncertainty of VERA-MPACT with the ENDF/B-VII.1 51-Group Library Through Benchmark Calculations for Critical Experiments
2:00–2:20PM EDT
Kang Seog Kim (ORNL)
Simulation of the Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Benchmark Cores Using MC2-3/Griffin
2:20–2:40PM EDT
Changho Lee (ANL), Somyung Park (ANL), Shikhar Kumar (ANL), Nicolas Stauff (ANL), Zhiwen Xu (TerraPower), Jacob Hader (TerraPower)
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