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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Nuclear power’s new rule book: Managing uncertainty in efficiency, safety, and independence
The U.S. nuclear industry is standing at its most volatile regulatory moment yet—one that will shape the trajectory and the safety of the industry for decades to come. Recent judicial, legislative, and executive actions are rewriting the rules governing the licensing and regulation of nuclear power reactors. Although these changes are intended to promote and accelerate the deployment of new nuclear energy technologies, the collision of multiple legal shifts—occurring simultaneously and intersecting with profound technological uncertainties—is overwhelming the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and threatening to destabilize investor and industry expectations.
Technical Session|Advanced Reactor Design and Analysis - Circulating-Fuel Reactors
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|8:00–9:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley B
Session Chair:
Joshua Hanophy (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Dean Wang (Ohio State)
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A Computationally Tractable Model for Spatially Resolved Nuclide Concentrations in Flowing Fuel Molten Salt Reactors
8:00–8:25AM MDT
Luke Seifert (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), Scott Richards (ANL), Madicken Munk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kathryn Huff (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Role of Recirculation in Reactivity Loss in Circulating-Fuel Reactors
8:25–8:50AM MDT
Lubomir Bures (Seaborg Technologies)
Low Resolution Simulation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Molten Salt Irradiation Flow Loop
8:50–9:15AM MDT
Seth Dayawansa (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin), David Carpenter (MIT), Charles Forsberg (MIT)
Modeling Continuous Online Refueling with SCALE 6.3.1 and Serpent-2 in the EIRENE Novel Molten Salt Reactor Design
9:15–9:40AM MDT
C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Texas, Austin), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), John P. Carter (INL)
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