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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Amazon provides update on its Washington project with X-energy
A year ago this month, Amazon led a $500 million investment in X-energy, alongside Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the University of Michigan, and other investors. In addition to that financing, Amazon pledged to support the development of an initial four-unit, 320-MW project with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
Technical Session|Special Topics
Thursday, August 24, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Columbia 2
Session Chair:
Takanori Kajihara (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Kurshad Muftuoglu (EPRI)
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Economic Evaluation of Electricity Supply and Storage in Energy Poor Region Using Microreactor and Two-Step Water Splitting Method
9:00–9:20AM EDT
SeockYong Lee (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), Su Won Lee (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), UngJin Na (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), HangJin Jo (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology)
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Integrated Energy System Model in OpenModelica for Producing Energy, Powering a Desalination Plant and for District Heating
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Md Akhlak Bin Aziz (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), CT Callaway (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Data Projection of the High Temperature Electrolysis System in the Dynamic Energy Transport and Integration Laboratory Using Dynamic System Scaling
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Ramon Yoshiura (INL), Jiangkai Peng (INL), Aaron Epiney (INL)
Presented by Zachary Ketrow (Oregon State)
Partial Arc Admission in an SMR Steam Turbine to Improve Load Following: Model Benchmark, Thermal-Hydraulic Mechanism Analysis and Application Case in a Full Rankine Cycle
10:00–10:20AM EDT
G. Vescovi (CEA), N. Alpy (CEA), D. Haubensack (CEA), C. Azzaro-Pantel (Univ. Toulouse), P. Stouffs (Univ. Pau et des Pays de l'Adour), A. Charvet (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon)
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