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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NC State releases feasibility study for new research and test reactor
North Carolina State University has completed a feasibility study for its planned advanced research and test reactor. The $3 million study, which was undertaken by the university at the direction of the North Carolina General Assembly, is described in the full report, includes recommendations and projected costs and timelines.
Reactor type: NC State prefers the new reactor to be of “a multipurpose advanced sodium-cooled mixed/coupled spectrum design,” according to the report. Such a design would make the reactor “the only sodium-cooled fast research and test reactor in the country.”
Technical Session
Monday, May 16, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Pointview
Session Chair:
Seth J. Spooner
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Pablo R. Rubiolo
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Development and Benchmarking of Transient Nodal Code SIMULATE5-K Neutron Kinetics Solver
Tamer Bahadir (Studsvik Scandpower)
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ANTARES: A New IRSN Computational Chain for Safety Analysis
F. Dubois (IRSN), M. Forestier (IRSN), G. Girault (IRSN), J.C. Jaboulay (IRSN), F. Jacq (IRSN), A. Sargeni (IRSN)
Thermal Feedback Coupling in a Transient Monte Carlo High-Order/Low-Order Scheme
Miriam A. Kreher (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
Transient MOC with Frequency Transform and DSA on Unstructured Mesh
Gavin Ridley (MIT), Logan Harbour (INL), Benoit Forget (MIT), Derek Gaston (INL)
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