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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 THD
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EDT|Marriott 2
Session Chair:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Joseph Seo (TAMU)
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Progress of Westinghouse LFR Safety Case and Safety Analysis
8:00–8:20AM EDT
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jim Scobel (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Luciano Maniaci (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Andrea Maioli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Guido Gerra (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Richard Rolland III (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Oleg Boychenko (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Megan E. Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Daniel L. Wise (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Cory Stansbury (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Richard F. Wright (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Sung Jin Lee (Fauske & Assoc.), Michael Epstein (Fauske & Assoc.)
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RELAP5-3D Solutions to Exercise 1 of the OECD-NEA HTTF Benchmark
8:20–8:40AM EDT
Robert F. Kile (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Aaron S. Epiney (INL), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
X-ray Imaging of Flow Phenomena Within Sodium Heat Pipes for Microreactor Applications
8:40–9:00AM EDT
Erik M. Tillman (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Gregory F. Nellis (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mark H. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Fast Modular Reactor Core Flow Channel Analysis
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Jonathan Rohrbacher (General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems), Oscar Gutierrez (General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems)
Digital Twin and Prediction of Temperature Distribution for Thermosyphon Heat Pipe Using LSTM
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Ik Jae Jin (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
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