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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Technical Session
Thursday, May 19, 2022|3:30–5:15PM EDT|Brighton III/IV
Session Chair:
Una Baker (University of Wisconsin)
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Session Organizer:
Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin)
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Comparison of LWR Decay Heat Calculations Using ANSI/ANS-5.1-2014 Standard and SCALE
Joseph R. Burns (ORNL), Germina Ilas (ORNL), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), William Wieselquist (ORNL)
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Criticality Analysis of a Variant Model of a Spent Fuel Cask
Loretta Boahemaa Manu (Harbin Engineering Univ.), Xiang Wang (Harbin Engineering Univ.)
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Scoping Studies of Subcritical Minor Actinide-Burning Fission-Fusion Hybrid Designs for Nuclear Waste Reduction
J. Ruegsegger (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), C. Moreno (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Nyberg (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), T. Bohm (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), P. Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), B. Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Markov Chain Models of Nuclear Transmutation: Theory and Application
Máté Halász (Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics), Mate Szieberth (Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics)
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