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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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Studsvik announces partnership to deploy four BWRX-300s in Sweden
Swedish engineering services firm Studsvik and its partners have teamed up on a four-unit BWRX-300 new build project in southern Sweden. On Thursday, Studsvik entered into a joint development agreement with GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy, GE Vernova Financial Services, DS Investment Partners, and Samsung C&T to advance the 1.2-GW ReFirm program, with the expectation the first unit will commence operations in the mid-2030s.
Technical Session|Fusion and Plasma Physics
Friday, April 4, 2025|1:10–2:30PM MDT|Mirage/Thunderbird
Session Chair:
Shane M. Evans
Alternate Chair:
Jared Justice
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Solver for Liquid Metal Flow Channel Simulations
1:10–1:30PM MDT
Brandon Partee (Tennessee State), Yuqiao Fan (ORNL)
Paper
Channel Width Analysis for Blanket Design In Fusion Reactors
1:30–1:50PM MDT
Jazzmarya K. Hamilton (Tennessee State), Monica Gehrig (ORNL)
Effects of Gas Feed on Plasma-Liquid Electrolysis for Nitrogen Fixation
1:50–2:10PM MDT
Emily Gillmore (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Brandon Kamiyama (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ali Eslamisaray (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), R. M. Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Low Temperature Plasma Synthesis of Boron Nitride Films on Arbitrary Substrates
2:10–2:30PM MDT
Adam Rousseau (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mohan Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Souvik Bhattacharya (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Matthew Confer (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)