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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
Technical Session|Special Topics
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Alessandro Del Nevo (ENEA)
Alternate Chair:
Megan Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Session Organizer:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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GOTHIC Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of the Passive Heat Removal Facility to Support the Westinghouse Lead Fast Reactor Development
1:30–1:50PM EDT
M.E. Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), D.L. Wise (Westinghouse Electric Co.), J. Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), R.F. Wright (Westinghouse Electric Co.), C.A. Stansbury (Westinghouse Electric Co.), P. Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), M. Caramello (Ansaldo Nucleare), A. Wimshurst (Frazer-Nash Consultancy)
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Numerical Analysis and Codes Qualification Based on SIRIO Experiments Within the PIACE Project
1:50–2:10PM EDT
P. Lorusso (ENEA), M. Tarantino (ENEA), F.S. Nitti (ENEA), A. Achilli (SIET), M. Cauzzi (SIET), M. Caramello (Ansaldo Nucleare), T. Hamidouche (SCK CEN), R. Fernandez (SCK CEN), D. Rozzia (SCK CEN), I. Kljenak (Jozef Stefan Institute), R. Krpan (Jozef Stefan Institute), G. Jimenez (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), C. Queral (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), T. Del Moro (Sapienza Univ. Rome)
Analysis of Steady State and Operational Transients of the Versatile Loop Facility in Support to Lead Fast Reactor Development
2:10–2:30PM EDT
C. Ciurluini (Sapienza Univ. Rome), M. Principato (Sapienza Univ. Rome), F. Giannetti (Sapienza Univ. Rome), M. Caramello (Ansaldo Nucleare), M. Tarantino (ENEA)
Application Development and Verification of Lead Cooling System Safety Analysis Program based on RELAP5 MOD4.0
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Xiangyang Wang (Lanzhou Univ.), Liu Yang (Lanzhou Univ.), Su Xingkang (Lanzhou Univ.), Qijian Chen (Lanzhou Univ.), Lu Zhang (Chinese Academy of Science), Xianwen Li (Chinese Academy of Science), Bin Han (Southeast Univ.), Aiguo Liu (DEQD Institute for Advanced Research in Multiphase Flow and Energy Transfer), Bao-Wen Yang (DEQD Institute for Advanced Research in Multiphase Flow and Energy Transfer), Gu Long (Lanzhou Univ.)
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