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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
Technical Session|Reactor Design and Analysis
Monday, April 22, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Franciscan A
Session Chair:
Tingzhou Fei
Alternate Chair:
Mauricio E. Tano Retamales
Session Organizer:
Eva E. Davidson
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Development of a Gaseous Fission Products' Model for a Molten Salt Reactor (MSR): Analysis of the Effect of the Gas Removal System's Efficiency on the Concentration of Xenon in the Fuel Circuit
3:30–3:50PM PDT
M. Marone (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), P. Rubiolo (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), V. Ghetta (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), J. Giraud (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), F. Quinteros (Univ. Grenoble Alpes)
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Griffin's Depletion Calculation of Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
3:50–4:10PM PDT
D. Hartanto (ORNL), E. Davidson (ORNL), Y. Cao (ANL), T. Fei (ANL), M. Tano-Retamales (INL)
Effect of Temperature Recirculation on Frequency Response and Stability of Molten Salt Reactors
4:10–4:30PM PDT
Lubomir Bures (Seaborg Technologies)
Verification and Validation Activities of Molten Salt Reactors Multiphysics Coupling Schemes at Idaho National Laboratory
4:30–4:50PM PDT
Mustafa K. Jaradat (INL), Namjae Choi (INL), Mauricio Tano Retamales (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL), Javier Ortensi (INL)
Modeling the MSRR Using MPACT
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Nicholas Herring (Univ. Texas, Austin), Benjamin Collins (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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