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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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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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