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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Illinois legislature lifts ban on nuclear energy, funds clean energy
The Illinois General Assembly passed a clean energy bill on October 30 that would, in part, lift a 30-year moratorium on new nuclear energy in the state and create incentives for more energy storage.
Technical Session|Reactor Design and Analysis
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan C
Session Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff
Alternate Chair:
Scott Richards (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Eva E. Davidson
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A Study of Fuel Choice Effects when Transitioning to a Closed Fuel Cycle
1:30–1:50PM PDT
S. Richards (ANL), T. Kim (ANL)
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3D Full Core Depletion Analysis Using BSOLVE+MCNP6 Analysis of the Washington State University Reactor
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Meng-Jen (Vince) Wang (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Glenn E. Sjoden (Univ. Utah), C. Corey Hines (Washington State)
Thermal Analysis of the Sirius-3 Nuclear Propulsion Fuel Experiments
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Frederick N. Gleicher (INL), Mustafa K. Jaradat (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Mark DeHart (INL)
Progress on Transport and Transmutation Analysis of Proton Beam Irradiating Long-Lived Spent Nuclear Waste
2:30–2:50PM PDT
Charlotte I. Wickert (MIT), Grigor Tukharyan (MIT), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Areg Danagoulian (MIT), Zachary Hartwig (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
Long Time Scale Multiphysics Simulation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister in MOOSE
2:50–3:10PM PDT
Rodrigo de Oliveira (INL), Joshua Hanophy (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL), Derek Gaston (INL)
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