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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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ANS Fireside Chat introduces new leaders for ANS, UCOR
On Tuesday, during Mark Peters’s last days as the American Nuclear Society’s vice president/president-elect before assuming the presidency on June 4, he sat down with ANS CEO Craig Piercy for a Fireside Chat at the Annual Conference.
The MITRE CEO weighed in on his career path, what excites and worries him about the resurgence of nuclear energy, and juggling work-life balance with his new duties as ANS’s 72nd president.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun. It’s an important year,” he told Piercy.
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 17, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM EDT|Fountainview
Session Chair:
Yan Cao (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
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Control Rod Modeling in Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors
Timothy M. Kiefer (NCSU), William C. Dawn (NCSU), Khaldoon Al-Dawood (NCSU), Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
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Application of Monte Carlo Code Shift for MSBR Dose Rate Calculations
Yan Cao (ANL), Eva E. Davidson (ORNL), Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL), Bo Feng (ANL)
Activation of Lead Coolant in Westinghouse Lead Fast Reactor
Alex Levinsky (Westinghouse Electric Co.), F. Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Co.), P. Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), C. Stansbury (Westinghouse Electric Co.), M. Ickes (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Stability Analysis of a One-Dimensional Multiphysics Model of a Molten Salt Fast Reactor
Maximilian Kraus (Technische Univ. Dresden), Marco Viebach (Technische Univ. Dresden), Carsten Lange (Technische Univ. Dresden), Antonio Hurtado (Institute of Power Engineering)
