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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Deep Isolation validates its disposal canister for TRISO spent fuel
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation announced it has successfully completed Project PUCK, a government-funded initiative to demonstrate the feasibility and potential commercial readiness of its Universal Canister System (UCS) to manage TRISO spent nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Advanced Reactors
Tuesday, July 22, 2025|10:00AM–12:05PM EDT|Room 3
Session Chair:
Donny Hartanto
Alternate Chair:
Joe Fuel
Session Organizer:
Scott P. Palmtag
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Fine Group Structure Optimization for Pebble Bed Reactor Simulations
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Andrew P. Panter (University of Michigan), Hansol Park (Argonne National Laboratory), Changho Lee (Argonne National Laboratory), Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
Paper
Sensitivity Study of 𝐾eff to Neutron Cross-Section Perturbations in a Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Using MOX and Metal Fuels
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Oyeon Kum (KIRAMS)
A Breed-and-Burn Strategy Proposal for Mizton, a Heat Pipe-Cooled Microreactor
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Emiliano Morones-García (Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Juan-Luis François (Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
SCALE Modeling and Inventory Generation for a Generic TRISO-fueled Heat Pipe Micro Reactor
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Donny Hartanto (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Friederike Bostelmann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Georgeta Radulescu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Tarek Ghaddar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Rabab R. Elzohery (Oak National National Laboratory), William Wieselquist (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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