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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Amazon provides update on its Washington project with X-energy
A year ago this month, Amazon led a $500 million investment in X-energy, alongside Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the University of Michigan, and other investors. In addition to that financing, Amazon pledged to support the development of an initial four-unit, 320-MW project with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 17, 2022|3:30–5:15PM EDT|Ellwood
Session Chair:
Sooyoung Choi
Alternate Chair:
Akinori Giho (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Session Organizer:
Akio Yamamoto
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PN Source Expansion Nodal Method in MPACT for Boiling Water Reactors
Sooyoung Choi (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
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Precise 3D Reactor Core Calculation Using Spherical Harmonics and Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods
Kenneth Assogba (CEA), Lahbib Bourhrara (CEA), Igor Zmijarevic (CEA), Grégoire Allaire (Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
The MPN Method: A New Angular Discretization Method Based on Piecewise Polynomial Interface Fluxes
Matteo Falabino (CEA), Daniele Sciannandrone (CEA), Emiliano Masiello (CEA), Jean-François Vidal (CEA)
Investigaton of Methods for Targeted Search of Dominant Higher Modes in Subcritical Systems
Ádám Aranyosy (Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics), Mate Szieberth (Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics)
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