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April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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An open letter to Chris Wright
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Dear Secretary Wright:
On behalf of the U.S. nuclear professional community, I offer our sincere congratulations to you on your becoming the secretary of energy.
By now, I’m sure you have figured out that “Department of Energy” is a misnomer. If the Department of Government Efficiency ever requires truth in advertising, the DOE should be renamed the “Department of Nuclear Weapons, Security, Cleanup, and Sundry Energy and Science Programs.” That’s because more than 60 percent of the DOE’s budget is dedicated to “atomic energy defense activities”—making sure our nuclear bombs work, our aircraft carriers and submarines sail, and our Cold War messes get cleaned up.
Technical Session
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair:
Scott Palmtag (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
Nicholas Herring (Univ. of Michigan)
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Evaluation of Reactor Pulse Experiments
8:30–8:55AM EDT
I. Švajger (Jozef Stefan Institute), L. Snoj (Jozef Stefan Institute)
Paper
Fast Reactor Depletion Methods in LUPINE
8:55–9:20AM EDT
Scott Palmtag (NC State Univ.), William C. Dawn (NC State Univ.), Chase Lawing (NC State Univ.)
Fuel Salt Compressibility Effects in Molten Salt Fast Reactors
9:20–9:45AM EDT
Jun Shi (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Frequency Domain Analysis Of HTR-Like Microreactors
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Shai Kinast (Nuclear Research Center Negev/Univ. of Michigan), Doron Sivan (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev), Sooyoung Choi (Univ. of Michigan), Claudio Filippone (HolosGen), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
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