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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 Fuels and Actinide Materials
Monday, December 11, 2023|1:00–2:40PM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Michael R. Tonks (Univ. Florida)
Track Organizers:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Jian Gan (INL)
Alternate Chair:
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Multiscale Modeling for the High-Burnup Structure in UO2
1:00–1:40PM CST
S. Biswas (INL), L.K. Aagesen (INL), W. Jiang (INL), M.W.D. Cooper (LANL)
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UO2 MiniFuel Irradiation for High-Burnup Fuel Applications
1:40–2:00PM CST
J.P. Gorton (ORNL), K.M. Godsey (ORNL), A.C. Telles (ORNL), A.G. Le Coq (ORNL), K.D. Linton (ORNL), C.M. Petrie (ORNL), N.A. Capps (ORNL)
UO2 High-Burnup Behavior and Transient Fission Gas Release Modeling
2:00–2:20PM CST
P.-C.A. Simon (INL), L.K. Aagesen (INL), D. Andersson (LANL), S. Biswas (INL), N. Capps (ORNL), M.D.W. Cooper (LANL), W. Jiang (INL), S. Novascone (INL)
Very High Burnup Transient Fission Gas Release: A Sensitivity Study in BISON
2:20–2:40PM CST
Ian Greenquist (ORNL), Nathan Capps (ORNL)