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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|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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