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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Integrating Waste Management for Advanced Reactors: The Universal Canister System and Project UPWARDS
When the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy launched the Optimizing Nuclear Waste and Advanced Reactor Disposal Systems (ONWARDS) program in 2022, it posed a challenge that the nuclear industry had never seriously confronted before: how to design waste management solutions that anticipate the coming shift to advanced reactors and not merely retrofit existing systems built for an older generation of technology. The program’s objectives were ambitious—reduce disposal footprint, enable scalable pathways for unfamiliar waste streams, and build the technical foundations for future disposal—yet also tightly grounded in the realities of emerging nuclear fuel cycles. For the nuclear community, this was a timely call. Advanced reactors were accelerating toward deployment, but the waste management systems needed to support them had not kept pace.
Technical Session|Fuel Management
Wednesday, July 23, 2025|10:00AM–12:05PM EDT|Beach Room
Session Chair:
Baris Sarikaya
Alternate Chair:
Duncan E. Robinson
Session Organizer:
Scott P. Palmtag
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Fuel Assembly Lattice Designs using High Enrichment and Hybrid Burnable Absorbers - Zirconium Diboride and Gadolinia
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Damon Bryson (Duke Energy)
Paper
BISON Modeling of ZIRLO Cladding for Reactivity Initiated Accident Separate Effects
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Landry D. Wells (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
A Soluble Boron-Free Core Design Having Cr-coated GdN-CBA for Load-Following Operation with Two Control Rod Designs
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Woo Jin Lee (Hanyang Univ.), Sung Hyun Cho (Hanyang Univ.), Ser Gi Hong (Hanyang Univ.)
Evaluation of Framatome Shielding Fuel Assemblies in the Swedish Nuclear Power Plant Ringhals 3
11:15–11:40AM EDT
L. Ackermann (Framatome), C. Möllmer (Framatome), J. Peucker (Framatome)
Pin Placement Optimization for Single and Dual Gadolinia Loading Patterns in Pressurized Water Reactor Fuel Assemblies
11:40AM–12:05PM EDT
Danielle Harris (Duke Energy)
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