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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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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|New and Advanced Reactors
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Columbia 3/4
Session Chair:
Robert P. Martin (Independent)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Paolo Balestra (INL)
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Investigation of Static Boiling in a Large Scale RCCS
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Q. Lv (ANL), M. Jasica (ANL), D. Lisowski (ANL), Z. Ooi (ANL), A. Kraus (ANL), R. Hu (ANL), M. Farmer (ANL)
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Uncoupled DEM Simulation to Investigate the Impact of Coolant Flow on Pebble Flow in Pebble Bed Reactor
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Muhammad Sohaib Malik (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jiaqi Chen (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Angela Di Fulvio (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Timothy P. Grunloh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
The Refractive Index Matched Pebble Bed Facility for High Resolution Experiments of DLOFC and PLOFC Accidents in MPBRs
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Zachary Welker (Univ. Michigan), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan), Victor Petrov (Univ. Michigan), Paolo Balestra (INL)
Turbulence Characteristics Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition in an 84-Pin Hexagonal Fuel Assembly
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Craig Menezes (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
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