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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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MURR expansion set back by Mo. state legislature
Spirits were high last month when a ribbon cutting was held at the University of Missouri for a $20 million, three-story, 47,000-square-foot addition, dubbed MURR West, to the MURR research reactor facilities.
Technical Session
Thursday, May 19, 2022|3:30–5:15PM EDT|Haselton
Session Chair:
Vince Wang (U. of Utah)
Alternate Chair:
Petri Guimaraes (Studsvik Scandpower)
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Boundary Condition Free Homogenization and Evaluation of its Performance in Fast Reactor Core Analysis
Shuhei Maruyama (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
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Flux Flattening Heavy Water Reactors with Accelerator-Driven Photoneutron Source
Arief Rahman Hakim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Douglas A. Fynan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology)
Enhancement Concept Reactor Physics Studies to Support HFIR Upgrade Planning Activities
D. Chandler (ORNL), C.D. Bryan (ORNL), J. L. McDuffee (ORNL)
Depletion Perturbation Theory: A Sensitivity Tool for the High Flux Reactor Conversion to Low Enriched Uranium
Davide Portinari (Institut Laue Langevin), Yoann Calzavara (Institute Laue Langevin), Laurent Chabert (TechnicAtome), Adrien Bidaud (LPSC-IN2P3-CNRS)
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