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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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FERC decision on Crane restart coming in June or July, Constellation execs say
In a first quarter earnings call Monday, executives at Constellation said they should know in June or July the status of a request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to transfer capacity interconnection rights from the company’s Eddystone gas- and-oil-powered plant in Pennsylvania to Crane nuclear power plant (formerly Three Mile Island-1).
Technical Session|Methods Development
Tuesday, July 22, 2025|10:00AM–12:05PM EDT|Gulf Room
Session Chair:
Justin K. Watson
Alternate Chair:
Geoff Pihl
Session Organizer:
Scott P. Palmtag
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Verification of CMS5 for Higher Enrichment and High Burnup PWR Core Design
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik), William C. Dawn (Studsvik), Tamer Bahadir (Studsvik)
Paper
Validation of CMS5 against Otto Hahn Critical Experiment Benchmark
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Tamer Bahadir (Studsvik), Rodolfo M. Ferrer (Studsvik)
Evaluation of GNF's Advanced Core Simulator Performance for Modern BWR Core Designs
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Virinder Sandhu (Global Nuclear Fuel), John Hannah (Global Nuclear Fuel), Belgacem Hizoum (Global Nuclear Fuel), Brandon LaFleur (Global Nuclear Fuel), Yuxuan Liu (GE Hitachi), Leonid Pogosbekyan (Global Nuclear Fuel), Anthony Reese (Global Nuclear Fuel)
Benchmarking CASMO5 against Monte Carlo for PWR Lattices with Higher U-235 Enrichments
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Joshua Hykes (Studsvik), Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik)
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CASMO5 Analysis of Kurchatov Critical Experiments with 7.5-10% Enrichment
11:40AM–12:05PM EDT
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