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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 17, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Brighton III/IV
Session Chair:
Mathieu Dupont
Alternate Chair:
Germina Ilas
Session Organizer:
John D. Bess
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Evaluating the X2 Initial Core Zero Power Physics Tests with Serpent-Ants
Ville Valtavirta (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Unna Lauranto (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Antti Rintala (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
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Feynman-α Analysis Using BGO Gamma-Ray Detector in UTR-KINKI Reactor
Masaki Goto (Kindai Univ.), Tadafumi Sano (Kindai Univ.), Kunihiro Nakajima (Kindai Univ.), Takashi Kanda (Kindai Univ.), Atsushi Sakon (Kindai Univ.), Kengo Hashimoto (Kindai Univ.)
Validation of MPACT BWR Capabilities Against Critical Experiments
Yuxuan Liu (Univ. Michigan), Daniel Jabaay (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan), Kang Seog Kim (ORNL)
Simulation of SPND Beta-Current in AP1000 Core
Ruizhi Shao (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Liangzhi Cao (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Yunzhao Li (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Fengwei Si (Sanmen Nuclear Power Co.), Tengfei Hao (Sanmen Nuclear Power Co.), Chao Du (Sanmen Nuclear Power Co.), Wan Chenghui (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.)
Presented by Wei Shen (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.)
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