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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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New U.S. BWRX-300 projects get Japanese investment
Coinciding with the March 19 White House meeting between President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, the Department of Commerce announced three new energy deals as part of a Japan-U.S. Strategic Investment initiative. Two of the deals involve the construction of natural gas generation facilities. The third, with an estimated value of as much as $40 billion, involves the construction of GE Vernova Hitachi (GVH) BWRX-300 small modular reactors in Tennessee and Alabama.
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 17, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Pointview
Session Chair:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Benjamin S. Collins (U. of Texas)
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PWR Loading Pattern Optimization with Reinforcement Learning
Paul Seurin (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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Parallel Simulated Annealing with Embedded Machine Learning and Multifidelity Models for Reactor Core Design
William Gurecky (ORNL), Ben Collins (ORNL), Paul Laiu (ORNL), Tara Pandya (ORNL), Quincy Huhn (TAMU), Dave Kropaczek (ORNL)
Group Structure Selection with Random Forests
Vishnu Nair (LANL), Thomas Saller (LANL), Andrew Till (LANL), Nathan Gibson (LANL)
Extension of the PINN Diffusion Model to k-eigenvalue Problems
Mohamed H. Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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