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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Katy Huff on the impact of loosening radiation regulations
Katy Huff, former assistant secretary of nuclear energy at the Department of Energy, recently wrote an op-ed that was published in Scientific American.
In the piece, Huff, who is an ANS member and an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, argues that weakening Nuclear Regulatory Commission radiation regulations without new research-based evidence will fail to speed up nuclear energy development and could have negative consequences.
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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