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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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State Department adds Hungary to Central European nations making U.S. nuclear agreements
The U.S. nuclear industry took a further step to solidify its influence in Central Europe on February 16, when U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán signed the U.S.-Hungary Civil Nuclear Intergovernmental Agreement, potentially setting the stage for decades of cooperation in civilian nuclear energy between the two countries. This new agreement comes one month after the signing of a similar agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the government of Slovakia.
Technical Session|Office of Nuclear Energy Funded Research (NEUP and UNLP Programs)
Saturday, April 5, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Gran Quivera 1
Session Chair:
Tyler D. Newitt (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Cece Bell
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Design and Analysis of Gas Sparging Mass Transfer Experiment for Molten Salt Applications
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Andrew Hutsell (Young Members Group), Ryan P. McGuire (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Ethan M. Villarreal (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jeremy Lopez (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Experimental Investigation Regarding the Determination of Microbubble Geometry in Molten Salt Sparging Environments
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Ethan M. Villarreal (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Andrew Hutsella (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Automating Spectroscopic Analysis of Lithium Isotopic Composition with Convolutional Neural Networks
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Jason P. Clifford (NCSU), Lauren A. Kohler (NCSU), Julianna M. White (NCSU), Nusrat Karim (NCSU), Elizabeth Kautz (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Development of a Graphite Pebble Test Bed for Experimental Validation of Pebble Flow Simulations
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Ethan H. Nicolls (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ming Fang (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sohaib S. Malik (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Timothy Grunloh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Angela D. Fulvio (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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