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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Highlights from first panel of the 2026 ANS Annual Conference
Yesterday, the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference got off to an exciting start with an opening plenary that in its first half featured extensive commentary from ANS CEO Craig Piercy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Ho Nieh, the Department of Energy’s Michael Goff, and several others key leaders in the U.S. nuclear industry.
Technical Session
Wednesday, May 10, 2023|3:45–5:25PM MDT|Boise Room
Session Chair:
Lee S. Mason
Alternate Chair:
Vedant Mehta
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Neutronic Feasibility of Ultra-Compact, Long-Life Molten Salt Metal Reactor (MSMR)
3:45–4:05PM MDT
Jaehyun Ryu (KAIST), Eunhyug Lee (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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Preliminary Heat-Transfer Modelling of In-Core Thermoelectric Conversion for Small-Scale Space Reactors
4:05–4:25PM MDT
Ramy Mesalam (Univ. Leicester), Agostino Muratto (Univ. Leicester), Richard M. Ambrosi (Univ. Leicester)
An Initial Look at the Heat Pipe Resiliency to Reactor Operation
4:25–4:45PM MDT
Vedant K. Mehta (LANL), Sebastian C. Corbisiero (INL), Dasari V. Rao (LANL)
Physics Model Considerations for Nanocomposite Shielding in High Energy Proton Fields
4:45–5:05PM MDT
Justina A.M. Freilich (Oregon State), Camille J. Palmer (Oregon State)