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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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|1:00–2:40PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Logan Harbour (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Jin Whan Bae (ORNL)
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Verification of a Multiphysics Gas-Cooled Reactor Simulation via the Method of Manufactured Solutions
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Zane G. Tucker (Oregon State), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State)
Paper
Pebbles' Life Cycle Analysis in Salt-Cooled Pebble Bed Reactor for Enhanced Fuel Performance Assessment
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Ludovic Jantzen (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yves Robert (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
In-Memory, Fully-Parallel Coupling of GeN-Foam and OFFBEAT: Towards a New Milestone in High-Fidelity, Finite-Volume Nuclear Reactor Simulation
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Giovanni Nervi (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Thomas Guilbaud (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Mathieu Hursin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Cell-Wise Temperature and Deformation Reactivity Feedback Modeling in Heat Pipe-Cooled Microreactors
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Chiara Genoni (TAMU), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Vefa Kucukboyaci (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Mangiarotti), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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