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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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INL researchers use LEDs to shed light on next-gen reactors
At Idaho National Laboratory, researchers have built a bridge between computer models and the lab’s Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation (MARVEL) microreactor.
Tony Crawford, an INL researcher and MARVEL’s reactivity control system lead, designed a phone booth–sized surrogate nuclear reactor called ViBRANT, or Visual Benign Reactor as Analog for Nuclear Testing, which uses light instead of neutrons to show a “nuclear” reaction.
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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