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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Aalo and Antares progress on Reactor Pilot Program
Two participants in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program have recently announced significant milestones on their associated reactor projects. Aalo Atomics successfully completed its final design review (FDR), and Antares Nuclear has received DOE approval of its preliminary documented safety analysis (PDSA).
Technical Session|Modeling and Simulation
Wednesday, October 9, 2024|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Room 1
Session Chair:
Ahmad Y. Al Rashdan (INL)
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Digital Engineering Implementation in the Nuclear Energy Industry
1:00–1:20PM MDT
Philip Schoonover (INL), Peter Suyderhoud (INL), Nicholas Crowder (INL)
Paper
Automatic Machine Learning Demonstration for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Reactivity Control and Rod Ejection Simulations
1:20–1:40PM MDT
Patrick A. Myers (Univ. Michigan), Connor C. Craig (Univ. Michigan), Andrew P. Panter (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
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High-Fidelity Simulations of an Air-Cooled Reactor Cavity Cooling System
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Sinan Okyay (Penn State), Victor Coppo Leite (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Paolo Balestra (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL)
Review of Recent Activities with MOOSE, an Open-Source Finite Element and Finite Volume Multi-Fidelity Simulation Framework
2:00–2:20PM MDT
Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Logan Harbour (INL), Casey T. Icenhour (INL), Alexander Lindsay (INL), Lynn B. Munday (INL), Benjamin W. Spencer (INL), Tianchen Hu (ANL), Peter German (INL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Christopher Green (CSIRO Energy), Rupert Eardley-Brunt (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), Sarah E. Roberts (INL)
A Proposed Verification and Validation Method for Machine Learning in Nuclear Applications
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Rajinder Khurmi (Ontario Tech Univ.), Glenn Harvel (Ontario Tech Univ.), Karthik Sankaranarayanan (Ontario Tech Univ.)
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