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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Technical Session|Sponsored by Advanced/Novel Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
Aaron Penders (Univ. Michigan)
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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Initial Results from High-Temperature Safety Testing of AGR-5/6/7 TRISO Fuel
3:10–3:30PM CST
W.F. Cureton (ORNL), J.D. Hunn (ORNL), D.J. Skitt (ORNL), F.C. Montgomery (ORNL), T.J. Gerczak (ORNL), G.W. Helmreich (ORNL)
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Synthesis and Characterization of Palladium Silicides to Inform TRISO Particle Irradiation Performance Modeling
3:30–3:50PM CST
S.J. Cavazos (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), E.S. Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Sensitivity Analysis Applied to Mechanistic Calculation for Effective Diffusivity of Ag Through the SiC Layer in TRISO Particles with BISON
3:50–4:10PM CST
C.B. Parsons (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), P.C.A. Simon (INL), B.D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Simulation of Fission Gas and Fission Product Diffusion in Irradiated TRISO Fuel Kernels
4:10–4:30PM CST
X.-Y. Liu (LANL), C. Matthews (LANL), J.T. Rizk (LANL), S.J. Cavazos (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), M.W.D. Cooper (LANL), D.A. Andersson (LANL)
Impact of Explicit Sorption Mass Transfer and Trapping on the Interlayer Fission Product Diffusion Behavior of TRISO Particle Fuel
4:30–4:50PM CST
J.A. Hirschhorn (INL), R.T. Sweet (INL), W. Jiang (INL)
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