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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|Instrumentation, Control Systems, and Cyber Security
Friday, April 4, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Trail/Spirit
Session Chair:
Benjamin Murphy (Univ. New Mexico)
Alternate Chair:
Mark L. Wetzel
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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A Gap Analysis for Molten Salt Digital Twin Technology
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Lauren Bailey (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Xingang Zhao (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Development of Automated Data Collection for Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Fission Fragments
9:20–9:40AM MDT
George Sun (Univ. Michigan), Liana Zhou (Univ. Michigan), Londrea Garrett (Univ. Michigan), Ammon N. Williams (INL), Igor Jovanovic (Univ. Michigan)
A Comparative Analysis of Students and Trained Operators' Mental Workload in the Testing of Thermal Power Dispatch Concept of Operations
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Olugbenga Gideon (Univ. Idaho), Roger Lew (Univ. Idaho), Benjamin K. Barton (Univ. Idaho), Thomas A. Ulrich (INL)
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