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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
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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 Nuclear Fuel Cycles
Tuesday, December 12, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Denia Djokic (Univ. Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Jie Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Track Organizers:
Sarah Finkeldi (Univ. California, Irvine)
Yong Yang (Univ. Florida)
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Opportunities of Advanced Reactor Systems to Support Nuclear Fuel Cycle Development Options
3:10–3:50PM CST
Patricia Paviet (PNNL)
Paper
Thermophysical Properties of Actinide-Containing Molten Salts
3:50–4:10PM CST
D. Nathanael Gardner (Univ. California, Berkeley), Maximilien Denis (Univ. California, Berkeley), Randall Chiu (Univ. California, Berkeley), Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Thermodynamic Assessment of Fourteen Pseudo-Ternary Reciprocal Salt Systems Relevant to Molten Salt Reactors
4:10–4:30PM CST
Clara Dixon (Univ. South Carolina), Mina Aziziha (Univ. South Carolina), Juliano Schorne-Pinto (Univ. South Carolina), Jorge Paz Soldan Palma (Univ. South Carolina), Theodore Besmann (Univ. South Carolina)
Turing Instability in the Solid State: Void Lattices in Irradiated Metals
4:30–4:50PM CST
M.W. Noble (Oxford Univ.), M.R. Tonks (Univ. Florida), S.P. Fitzgerald (Univ. Leeds)
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