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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Technical Session|New and Advanced Reactors
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Columbia 2
Session Chair:
Mauricio Tano (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Lambert Fick (Kairos)
Session Organizer:
Rui Hu
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Design and Construction of an Integral-Effect Test Facility FLUSTFA for Molten Salt Reactor Applications
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Sheng Zhang (Univ. Michigan), Hsun-Chia Lin (Univ. Michigan), Minghui Chen (Univ. Michigan), Shanbin Shi (Univ. Michigan), Shuai Che (Univ. Michigan), Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Xiaodong Sun (Univ. Michigan), Qiuping Lv (ANL)
Paper
Initial Operation of a High-Temperature Fluoride Salt Test Facility (FLUSTFA): Issues Identified and Paths Forward
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Sheng Zhang (Univ. Michigan), Shuai Che (Univ. Michigan), Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Xiaodong Sun (Univ. Michigan)
Design of a Natural Circulation Experiment to Investigate Flow Stability
11:25–11:45AM EDT
J.S. Narvaez Arrua (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), P. Rubiolo (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), J. Giraud (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), V. Ghetta (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), A. Cammi (Politecnico di Milano), S. Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano)
Flow-Informed Corrosion in Molten Salts Using the Poisson-Nernst-Planck Model
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
M. Tano (INL), S. Walker (INL), A. Abou-Jaoude (INL)
Fuel Flow Modeling Under Thermal Fluidics Considerations Within Operational Domains of Molten Salt Reactors
12:05–12:25PM EDT
Thabit M. Abuqudaira (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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