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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
Technical Session|New and Advanced Reactors
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Alternate Chair:
Piyush Sabharwall
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Investigation of Hybrid Heat Pipe Shutdown Rod Concept of Microreactor as a Passive Safety System
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Dong Hun Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
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Thermal Stress Analysis for Heat Pipe Cooled Microreactor Core Varying Condenser Temperature
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Myung Jin Jeong (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), San Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Jaeuk Im (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Hyoung Kyu Cho (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Experimental Study on the Start-up Characteristics and Performance of a Ten Sodium Heat Pipe Bundle Array
11:25–11:45AM EDT
Pei-Hsun Huang (Univ. Michigan), Taehwan Ahn (Univ. Michigan), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan), Victor Petrov (Univ. Michigan)
Nuclear Spaceship for Interplanetary Cruise Using a Micro Fast Reactor
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Tadashi Narabayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Study on Startup Characteristic of a Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycle Coupled with Heat Pipe Cooled Reactor
12:05–12:25PM EDT
Zheng Wang (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Minghui Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Shihao Xu (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Junli Gou (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Jianqiang Shan (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.)
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