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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nuclear fuel cycle reimagined: Powering the next frontiers from nuclear waste
In the fall of 2023, a small Zeno Power team accomplished a major feat: they demonstrated the first strontium-90 heat source in decades—and the first-ever by a commercial company.
Zeno Power worked with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to fabricate and validate this Z1 heat source design at the lab’s Radiochemical Processing Laboratory. The Z1 demonstration heralded renewed interest in developing radioisotope power system (RPS) technology. In early 2025, the heat source was disassembled, and the Sr-90 was returned to the U.S. Department of Energy for continued use.
Panel and Technical Session|Reactor Physics
Saturday, April 15, 2023|3:10–4:30PM EDT|Student Union 262C
Session Chair:
Rida Rahman (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Claire Gibson (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Reactor Physics Division.
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Verification of Continuous Reprocessor Function in Serpent 2
3:10–3:30PM EDT
Alvin J. Lee (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tomasz Kozlowski (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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West Point Sub-Critical Graphite Pile Assembly
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Alexander Wolf (US Military Academy), William Tilley (US Military Academy), Gavin Seifert (US Military Academy)
Methods and Tools for Multiphysics Benchmark Evaluation
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Isaac E. Naupa Aguirre (Georgia Tech), Samuel Garcia (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Modeling B&W Nuclear Reactors Using a Nodal Core Simulator
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Zachary D. Bevans (NCSU), Scott P. Palmtag (NCSU)
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