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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Lightbridge announces first U-Zr fuel rod samples extruded at INL
Lightbridge Corporation announced today that it has reached “a critical milestone” in the development of its extruded solid fuel technology. Coupon samples using an alloy of zirconium and depleted uranium—not the high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) that Lightbridge plans to use to manufacture its fuel for the commercial market—were extruded at Idaho National Laboratory’s Materials and Fuels Complex.
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10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair: Thomas M. Evans
Session Chair: Kendra Long
Session Chair: Jaakko Leppanen
Session Chair: Rodolfo Ferrer
1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Kostadin Ivanov
Session Chair: Richard Vasques
Session Chair: Tara Pandya
Session Chair: Mathew Cleveland
3:30–5:10PM EDT
Session Chair: Todd Palmer
Session Chair: Thomas Brunner
Session Chair: Aaron Olson
Session Chair: David Griesheimer
5:30–7:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Katherine Royston
Session Chair: Yaqi Wang
Session Chair: William Wieselquist
Session Chair: Joshua Hykes
Session Chairs: Nicholas A. Gentile, Mathew Cleveland
Session Chair: Jean Ragusa
Session Chair: Adam Nelson
Session Chair: Sebastian Schunert
Session Chair: Terry Haut
Session Chair: James Warsa
Session Chair: Raffi Yessayan
Session Chair: Maria Avramova
Session Chair: Erin Davis
Session Chair: Jae Chang
Session Chair: Alex Long
8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair: Scott Palmtag
Session Chair: Ryan McClarren
Session Chairs: Imre Pázsit, Anil Prinja
Session Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Chairs: Imre Pázsit, Anil K. Prinja
Session Chair: Xu Wu
Session Chair: Brendan Kochunas
Session Chair: Zeyun Wu
1:20–2:10PM EDT
Session Chair: Hany Abdel-Khalik
Session Chair: Changho Lee
Session Chair: Patrick Brantley
2:10–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Christophe Demaziere
Session Chair: Christophe Demazière
Session Chair: Cory Hauck
Session Chair: Won Sik Yang
Session Chair: Agustin Abarca
Session Chair: Bojan Petrovic
Session Chair: Benjamin Betzler
Session Chair: HyeongKae Park
Session Chair: Andrew Holcomb
Session Chair: Jason Hou
Session Chair: Robert Nourgaliev
Session Chair: Simone Santandrea
Session Chair: Matthew Jessee