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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
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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