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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Friday, April 4, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Santa Ana AB
Session Chair:
Mekiel Olguin
Alternate Chair:
Liam Pohlmann
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Recurrent Neural Networks to Predict Reactor Operations using Physics-Informed Data and Rolling Statistics
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Jaden Palmer (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Ashley Shields (INL)
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Computational Error Field Validation Experiments on HIDRA
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Arnav Goyal (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Steven Gula (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Nina Mihajlov (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Daniel E. Andruczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
OpenMC Validation Using Neutron Activation Experimental Data
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Saurav Bastola (Univ. Texas, Austin), Haider A. Nazir (Univ. Texas, Austin), Maximilian Vreclj (Univ. Texas, Austin), Madison Brooks (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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