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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Integrating Waste Management for Advanced Reactors: The Universal Canister System and Project UPWARDS
When the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy launched the Optimizing Nuclear Waste and Advanced Reactor Disposal Systems (ONWARDS) program in 2022, it posed a challenge that the nuclear industry had never seriously confronted before: how to design waste management solutions that anticipate the coming shift to advanced reactors and not merely retrofit existing systems built for an older generation of technology. The program’s objectives were ambitious—reduce disposal footprint, enable scalable pathways for unfamiliar waste streams, and build the technical foundations for future disposal—yet also tightly grounded in the realities of emerging nuclear fuel cycles. For the nuclear community, this was a timely call. Advanced reactors were accelerating toward deployment, but the waste management systems needed to support them had not kept pace.
Technical Session|Experimental Reactor Physics
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 1
Session Chair:
Luka Snoj
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Mathieu Hursin
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Reactivity Relative Monitoring Using Threshold Fission Chambers with the Current-to-Flux Method for the Accelerator Driven VENUS-F Subcritical Reactor
3:30–3:50PM PDT
N. Marie (Normandie Univ.), A. Billebaud (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), S. Chabod (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), A. Kochetkov (SCK CEN), A. Krása (SCK CEN), F.-R. Lecolley (Normandie Univ.), J.-L. Lecouey (Normandie Univ.), G. Lehaut (Normandie Univ.), N. Messaoudi (SCK CEN), G. Vittiglio (SCK CEN), J. Wagemans (SCK CEN)
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Epithermal Neutron Spectrum Filtering Experiment Design at the VENUS-F Zero Power Fast Reactor
3:50–4:10PM PDT
Federico Grimaldi (SCK CEN), Patrick Blaise (Framatome), Antonin Krasa (SCK CEN), Pierre-Etienne Labeau (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles), Guido Vittiglio (SCK CEN), Jan Wagemans (SCK CEN)
Understanding the Moderator Temperature Coefficient of Reactivity of Prismatic Graphite-Moderated Gas-Cooled Reactors with Burnable Absorbers
4:10–4:30PM PDT
D. Bazzani (Politecnico di Milano), S. Wijaya (KAIST), A. Cammi (Politecnico di Milano), Y. Kim (KAIST)
A Data-Driven Incident Detection Method for the Safe Operation of Molten Salt Fast Reactors
4:30–4:50PM PDT
N. Abrate (Politecnico di Torino), N. Caruso (Politecnico di Torino), S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino), S. Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano), N. Pedroni (Politecnico di Torino)
Transient Modeling and Simulation for Deimos, an Advanced Reactor Experiment
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Alexis Maldonado (LANL), Theresa E. Cutler (LANL), Kristin N. Stolte (LANL), Holly R. Trellue (LANL)
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