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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|Sponsored by Fundamental Irradiation Damage
Tuesday, December 12, 2023|8:00–9:40AM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Yanwen Zhang (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Flyura Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki)
Track Organizers:
Steve Zinkle (University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mitra Taheri (Johns Hopkins University)
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Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials for Radiation Damage in Metals and Alloys
8:00–8:40AM CST
J. Byggmästar (Univ. Helsinki), K. Nordlund (Univ. Helsinki), F. Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki)
Paper
Atomistically-Informed Cluster Dynamics Modelling of Concurrent Interstitial and Vacancy a-Loop Evolution in Alpha-Zirconium
8:40–9:00AM CST
Jose F. March-Rico (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Sophie Blondel (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Brian D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Hydrogen Pickup via the Implantation of Collision Recoils
9:00–9:20AM CST
Richard W. Smith (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Bruce F. Kammenzind (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Faulted Vacancy Basal Pyramids and Their Impact on Breakaway Growth in α-Zr
9:20–9:40AM CST
N. Militello (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), S. Blondel (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), J.F. March-Rico (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), B.D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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