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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Technical Session|Advanced Reactors
Tuesday, July 22, 2025|10:00AM–12:05PM EDT|Palm Room
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 (Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor), Hansol Park (ANL), Changho Lee (ANL), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. 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 (UNAM), Juan-Luis François (UNAM)
SCALE Modeling and Inventory Generation for a Generic TRISO-Fueled Heat Pipe Micro Reactor
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Donny Hartanto (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL), Tarek Ghaddar (ORNL), Rabab Elzohery (ORNL), William Wieselquist (ORNL)
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