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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Energy Secretary to speak at the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
In less than two weeks, the American Nuclear Society’s second annual conference of the year, the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo, will come to Washington, D.C.
Today, ANS is announcing that Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be joining the list of nuclear leaders slated to speak at the conference.
Click here to register for the meeting, which will take place November 9–12 in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton. Be sure to do so before November 7 to take advantage of priority pricing.
Technical Session|Reactor Design and Analysis
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan A
Session Chair:
Mehdi Asgari (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Joel Rhodes (Studsvik Scandpower)
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Loading Pattern Optimization for LWRs Using Monte Carlo Tree Search
1:30–1:50PM PDT
Rikuto Kasama (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.)
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Scalarized Multiobjective Fuel Loading Optimization of Extended-Cycle NuScale Power Module with Evolutionary Algorithms
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Thomas Jayasankar (Univ. Michigan), Dean Price (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
Learning Nuclear Fuel Management, Case Study: Design of a Two-Year Equilibrium Cycle of a BWRX-300-like Small Modular Reactor
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Arturo Jiménez-Facio (Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México), Juan-Luis Francois (Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México)
Stochastic Optimization to Find Reference Core Configuration for Refueling Simulations of Waste-Burning Stable Salt Reactor
2:30–2:50PM PDT
Seungug Jae (Univ. Michigan), Won Sik Yang (Univ. Michigan), Thanh Hua (ANL), Yan Cao (ANL), Tom Taylor (Moltex Energy), Luke Godfrey (Moltex Energy)
First Results of Uranium Nitride Fuel Characterization Using Accelerated Fuel Qualification Process
2:50–3:10PM PDT
A. Levinsky (LANL), Z. Miller (LANL), M. Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), T. Matthews (LANL), G.T. Craven (LANL), M.W.D. Cooper (LANL), V. Mehta (LANL), D.A. Andersson (LANL), J.T. Rizk (LANL)
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