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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
Monday, May 16, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Fountainview
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
Alternate Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL)
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A Preconceptual Design of an Inverted Stable-Salt Reactor
Cihang Lu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Neutronic Design and Fuel Cycle Analysis of a Fluoride Salt-Cooled High Temperature Reactor (FHR)
Zuolong Zhu (Ohio State), Dean Wang (Ohio State)
Fast Modular Reactor Nuclear Design Parameters of Fuel Cycle and Power Distributions
Darrin Leer (General Atomics), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics), Alexander Dheming (General Atomics), Oscar Gutierrez (General Atomics)
Presented by Ron Faibish (General Atomics)
Initital Development of a Generic Fluoride Salt-Cooled Reactor Model
Robert F. Kile (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Steven E. Skutnik (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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