ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Latest Magazine Issues
Jan 2026
Jul 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
February 2026
Nuclear Technology
December 2025
Fusion Science and Technology
November 2025
Latest News
Kairos Power finalizes contract on HALEU for Hermes
Kairos Power has finalized a contract with the Department of Energy to receive high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) from the agency for the company’s Hermes low-power demonstration reactor, currently under construction in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
In partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Kairos intends to use the DOE-provided material to produce HALEU TRISO fuel pebbles for Hermes. The company views the Hermes test reactor and the fuel fabrication program as crucial to the eventual success of its power-producing Hermes 2 demonstration plant, also to be sited in Oak Ridge, and future commercial fluoride salt–cooled high-temperature reactors.
Technical Session|Severe Accidents
Thursday, August 24, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
David L. Luxat
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Fulvio Mascari
To access paper attachments, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Register NowLog In
The SAIGA In-Pile Experimental Test to Study the Degradation of a SFR Core with Mitigation Devices in Severe Accident Conditions
9:00–9:20AM EDT
F. Payot (CEA), F. Charollais (CEA), E. Dufour (CEA), Y. Lejeail (CEA), G. Blevin (CEA), L. Trotignon (CEA), G. De Izarra (CEA), F. Michel (CEA), V. Dupont (CEA), N. Chikhi (CEA), R. Clavier (CEA), E. Batyrbekov (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), A. Vurim (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), A. Pakhnits (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), V. Baklanov (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
Paper
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Experiments and Modeling of Water-Cooled SMR Severe Accidents to Inform Level 4 and 5 Defence-in-Depth
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Luke Lebel (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Andrew Morreale (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Eric Jia (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Feng Zhou (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), David Hummel (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Scott Ormiston (Univ. Manitoba), Geoffrey Gray (Univ. Manitoba)
Preliminary Analysis of Severe Accident in Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Using Eutectic Reaction Model of Boron-Carbide Control-Rod Material
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Hidemasa Yamano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Koji Morita (Kyushu Univ.)
To join the conversation, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.