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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Hash Hashemianpresident@ans.org
From kindergarten classrooms to national security facilities, each event I attended during the opening weeks of the new year underscored one truth: The future of nuclear energy depends on the people we inspire, educate, and empower today.
I had a busy start to 2026, first speaking at the Nashville Energy and Mining Summit alongside Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association senior vice president Justin Maierhofer to explore the necessary synergies among policy, academic coursework, research, and industry expertise in accelerating American nuclear innovation. Drawing on experiences in high-level government relations and public affairs and decades of work in nuclear instrumentation advancements, we discussed Tennessee’s nuclear renaissance, workforce development, and policy frameworks that support emerging energy demands.
Technical Session|Reactor Design and Analysis
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Franciscan A
Session Chair:
Germina Ilas
Alternate Chair:
David Chandler (ORNL)
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Implementation of a Novel ERANOS Procedure for the Adjoint Power Evaluation in Coupled Depletion Problems
3:30–3:50PM PDT
Matteo Stanzani (Univ. Bologna), Donato Maurizio Castelluccio (ENEA), Francesco Lodi (ENEA), Vincenzo Giuseppe Peluso (ENEA), Giacomo Grasso (ENEA), Marco Sumini (Univ. Bologna)
Paper
Reactivity Decrease by Assembling Fuel Assemblies in a Heavy Water-Cooled Reactor
3:50–4:10PM PDT
Tomoatsu Shinohara (Tokyo City Univ.), Naoyuki Takaki (Tokyo City Univ.)
Fuel Cycle Analysis of Wielenga Innovation Static Salt Reactor (WISSR)
4:10–4:30PM PDT
Puran Deng (Univ. Michigan), Won Sik Yang (Univ. Michigan), Thomas Wielenga (Wielenga Innovation Foundation)
Multiphysics Analysis of a Minor Actinide Burning Molten Salt Reactor
4:30–4:50PM PDT
J. Eickman (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Nyberg (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), U. Baker (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), B. Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Dynamics and Stability Analysis Study of a Thermal Molten Salt Reactor
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Thabit Abuqudaira (TAMU), Ümran Üzen (TAMU), Dahvien Dean (TAMU), Pavel Tsvetkov (TAMU), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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