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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Industry Update—October 2025
Here is a recap of recent industry happenings:
New international partnership to speed Xe-100 SMR deployment
X-energy, Amazon, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, and Doosan Enerbility have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of X-energy’s Xe-100 small modular reactors and TRISO fuel in the United States to meet the power demands from data centers and AI. The partners will collaborate in reactor engineering design, supply-chain development, construction planning, investment strategies, long-term operations, and global opportunities for joint AI-nuclear deployment. The companies also plan to jointly mobilize as much as $50 billion in public and private investment to support advanced nuclear energy in the U.S.
Technical Session|Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Joshua Kaizer (USNRC)
Session Organizers:
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel)
Alternate Chair:
W. David Pointer (ORNL)
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Validation on SBLOCA Experiment of the ACME Test Facility Using the ATHLET Code
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Liancheng Guo (GRS), Thorsten Hollands (GRS), Henrique Austregesilo (GRS)
Presented by Sebastian Buchholz (GRS)
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Assessment of the CATHARE Code over SUPERCLAUDIA Tests for a Jet in a Liquid Water Pool
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Angela Oliva (CEA), Sofia Carnevali (CEA), Franck Morin (CEA), Stephane Mimouni (EDF)
Simulation of Oscillatory Flow Induced by Flashing Instability Using the ASYST System Analysis Code
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Taiyang Zhang (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Validation Against a Small Break LOCA Scenario on ACME Test Facility: Summary of the ISP-51 Open Phase
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Xueyan Zhang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Shiqi Wang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Cuiting Peng (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Yuhang Huang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Zhipeng Luo (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Lin Li (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Yixuan Zhang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Chengcheng Deng (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Jun Yang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology)
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