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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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RIC session addresses reactor restarts—and lessons learned at Palisades
At last week’s Regulatory Information Conference, Jamie Pelton cochaired a panel on the Palisades nuclear plant’s restart—a “historic restart,” as she put it.
Her choice of words was perhaps an understatement. After all, no U.S. nuclear plant has yet restarted after being slated for decommissioning.
Technical Session
Monday, May 16, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Brighton I/II
Session Chair:
Maria Avramova (NCSU)
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Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi (INL)
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Status of the OECD/NEA Watts Bar Unit 1 Benchmark and Calculations of Local Reactor Core Power Data of the Zero Power Physics Tests
T. Albagami (NCSU), P. Rouxelin (NCSU), S. Palmtag (NCSU), M. Avramova (NCSU), K. Ivanov (NCSU)
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Whole Core Analysis of OECD/NEA TVA-WB1 Benchmark Exercise 1 Using Continuous-Energy Monte Carlo Code MVP with JENDL-4.0u and ENDF/B-VII.0
Motomu Suzuki (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
OECD/NEA MPCMIV Benchmark -- Preliminary Fuel Performance Results
Quentin Faure (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU)
Investigation of the OECD/NEA PWR MOX/Uo2 Core Transient Benchmark Using a Coupled Whole Core Pin-by-Pin Route in WIMS
Alan Charles (Jacobs), Magda Stefanowska (Jacobs), Jean Lavarenne (Jacobs), Brendan Tollit (Jacobs), Peter Smith (Jacobs)
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