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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump issues executive orders to overhaul nuclear industry
The Trump administration issued four executive orders today aimed at boosting domestic nuclear deployment ahead of significant growth in projected energy demand in the coming decades.
During a live signing in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump called nuclear “a hot industry,” adding, “It’s a brilliant industry. [But] you’ve got to do it right. It’s become very safe and environmental.”
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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