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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
Technical Session
Thursday, October 7, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Matthew Jessee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Session Organizer:
Terry S. Haut (LLNL)
Student Producer:
K. Lisa Reed (Georgia Tech)
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Multiphysics Simulation of Uranium-Nitride Fueled Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Khaldoon A. Al-Dawood (NC State Univ.), William C. Dawn (NC State Univ.), Scott Palmtag (NC State Univ.)
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Multiphysics Modeling of Fast Liquid-Fuel Molten Salt Reactor Using STARCCM+
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Yeongshin Jeong (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Coupling Methodologies within WIMS for Multi-Physics Fuel Performance Modelling
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Peter Smith (Jacobs Nuclear), Brendan Tollit (Jacobs Nuclear), Alan Charles (Jacobs Nuclear), Jean Lavarenne (Jacobs Nuclear), William Poole (Jacobs Nuclear), Magda Stefanowska (Jacobs Nuclear)
Multiphysics Simulation of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor Using Griffin and Pronghorn
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Paolo Balestra (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Nicolas Martin (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Andrew Hermosillo (TAMU), Yaqi Wang (INL)
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