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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Technical Session|Reactor Physics
Saturday, April 6, 2024|10:15–11:35AM EDT|Hosler Room 026
Session Chair:
Katheren R. Bosson Nantes (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Caroline Ishak (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Preliminary Multiphysics Modeling of the SNAP 8 Experimental Reactor Wet Experiments
10:15–10:35AM EDT
Isaac E. Naupa Aguirre (Georgia Tech), Samuel Garcia (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
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BANR-R: High Temperature Gas-Cooled Microreactor for Research Applications
10:35–10:55AM EDT
Kathryn Livoti (NCSU), Parsa Banki (NCSU), Hakeem Bennett (South Carolina State), Maxim Khvostov (NCSU)
Energetic Godiva-IV Radiation Experiment Testbed (EGRET)
10:55–11:15AM EDT
Eli J. Boland (Missouri S&T), Edward S. Lum (LANL), Daniel T. Olive (LANL), Ari Foley (LANL)
Toward Optimization of Horizontal Compact High-Temperature Gas Reactor Core Loading Pattern
11:15–11:35AM EDT
Geneve C. Magnan (Univ. Michigan), Sam H. Schiavo (Univ. Michigan), Isabella E. Wood (Univ. Michigan)
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