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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Supreme Court declines to hear case involving St. Louis contamination
The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday declined to hear an appeal from General Atomics subsidiary Cotter Corporation and Commonwealth Edison, an Exelon company, in a case over alleged radioactive contamination in the St. Louis, Mo., area, leaving in place an 8th Circuit Court ruling that allows the plaintiffs’ state-law tort claims to proceed under the federal Price-Anderson Act.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Advanced/Novel Materials
Monday, December 11, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
Caleb P. Massey (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Janelle P. Wharry (Purdue Univeristy)
Track Organizers:
Kevin Field (Univ. Michigan)
Grace Burke (INL)
Benjamin Sutton (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
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Design and Testing of a Next Generation HFIR Target Rod Rabbit Holder Facility
3:10–3:30PM CST
N.G. Russell (ORNL), A.S. Chapel (ORNL), R.H. Howard (ORNL), C.D. Bryan (ORNL), G.J. Hirtz (ORNL), M.W. Crowell (ORNL)
Paper
Neutron Irradiation as a Function of Temperature -- Experiment (NIFT-E)
3:30–3:50PM CST
Simon M. Pimblott (INL), David Armstrong (Univ. Oxford), Matthew Arrowood (INL), Karina Assis (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Christopher Grovenor (Univ. Oxford), Abbie Jones (Univ. Manchester), Susan R. Ortner (National Nuclear Laboratory), Nassia Tzelepi (National Nuclear Laboratory), Stuart Maloy (PNNL), Janelle P. Wharry (Purdue)
The Role of Nuclear Science User Facilities in Nuclear Energy Materials Research and Development
3:50–4:10PM CST
Brenden Heidrich (INL)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Advanced Reactor Irradiation Testing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Under the Nuclear Science User Facilities Program
4:10–4:30PM CST
A.G. Le Coq (ORNL), J.P. Gorton (ORNL), N.G. Russell (ORNL), A.M. Schrell (ORNL), K.D. Linton (ORNL)
Molybdenum Weld Development for Applications in the High Flux Isotope Reactor
4:30–4:50PM CST
R.H. Howard (ORNL), A.M. Schrell (ORNL)