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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
Wednesday, May 18, 2022|3:30–5:15PM EDT|Fountainview
Session Chair:
Aaron Graham (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Michael E. Gavalek (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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LEU+ BWR Lattice Design Optimization of Using SCALE/Polaris
Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Mehdi Asgari (ORNL)
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Development of Cross-Section Data Set Repository and Interpolation Code System, LOCUS
Michael Gavalek (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Akinori Giho (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Ho Q. Lam (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Baocheng Zhang (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Verification of SIMULATE5 Pin Powers for Large Assembly Bow
Joshua Hykes (Studsvik Scandpower), Tamer Bahadir (Studsvik Scandpower)
NEWT Lattice Physics Code Bias Analysis and Compensation Strategy for Pressurized Water Reactor Calculations
L. Durán-Vinuesa (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), D. Cuervo (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), N. Garcia-Herranz (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid)
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