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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Multi-Scale, Multi-Physics Simulations
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|8:00–9:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Yaqi Wang (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Vincent Laboure (BWX Technologies)
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Time-Dependent Power Reconstruction Methodology Using Interpolated Fractions and Peaking Factors in the Mixcoatl 2.0 Software
8:00–8:25AM MDT
Vincent Laboure (BWX Technologies), Chase Lawing (BWX Technologies), Phil Hegedus (BWX Technologies), Bryan Zilka (BWX Technologies)
Paper
Solving Point Kinetics Equations Using Matrix Exponentials and Reactivity Extrapolation
8:25–8:50AM MDT
Emmanuel Lefevre (TechnicAtome), Mael Akouz (TechnicAtome)
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Application of the Pathline Method to the Aircraft Reactor Experiment
8:50–9:15AM MDT
Mathis Caprais (CEA), Nathan Greiner (CEA), André Bergeron (CEA)
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The Parareal Algorithm as Applied to Coupled Point Kinetics and Thermal-Hydraulics Models for Reactor Transients
9:15–9:40AM MDT
Timothy M. Kiefer (NCSU), Nick J. Adamowicz (Bettis Atomic Power Lab), Gabriel Kooreman (Bettis Atomic Power Lab)
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