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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC discontinues spent fuel pool rulemaking
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is discontinuing its rulemaking activity, “Long-Term and Unattended Water Makeup of Spent Fuel Pools,” and denying a petition for rulemaking. The new rule, as requested by the petitioner, would have required nuclear power plant licensees to ensure that their spent nuclear fuel pools are capable of cooling and maintaining water levels during extended power outages.
Panel and Technical Session|Poster Sessions
Saturday, April 15, 2023|1:35–4:15PM EDT|Ballroom C
Session Chair:
Lance M. Drouet
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Alternate Chair:
Emma C. Houston
This session is sponsored by MillenniTEK.
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Automation of Creating High Fidelity TRISO Particle Fuel Element in MCNP Models
Benjamin A. Impson (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zachary Crouch (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Demonstration of Multiphysics Plasma Simulations Through the IPS Framework
Joshua M. Hoffman (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Reduction of Iron Ore by an Atmospheric-Pressure Non-Thermal Microwave Plasma Torch
Harrison A. Brosius (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Daniel Ellis (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), R. M. Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jazline Rebollar (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jessica A. Krogstad (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Quantum Chemistry and Ligand Topology for Actinide Separations: The 343HOPO Case
Jeffrey A. Laub (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Design of an Optimized Nuclear Fuel Pellet
Patty Dooley (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Dakota M. Contryman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Addie Hervey (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Robert Ivers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Isabella A. Reddish (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Yuze Song (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
A Review of Mobile Robot Technology for Security Applications at Nuclear Facilities
Ujwal Sharma (Idaho State), Uma S. Medasetti (Idaho State), Mustafa Mashal (Idaho State), Vaibhav Yadav (INL)
Development of an Energy-Dependent Neutron Shielding Model for VARSKIN+
Zane Tucker (Renaissance Code Development, LLC), Charlotte Rose (Renaissance Code Development, LLC)
Radiation Mapping of a Subcritical Assembly
Asif S. Anwar (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue), True Miller (Purdue), Andres E. Gomez (Purdue), Adam J. Hermann (Purdue), Trevor G. Hylen (Purdue)
Importance Sampling Methods to Accelerate PINN Calculations for k-Eigenvalue Neutron Diffusion Problems
William E. Strom (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Mohamed H. Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Design and Optimization of the Core and Fuel Cycle in a 20 MW Pebble Bed Reactor
Grayson S. Gall (NCSU), James Krec (NC State), Ershaud Naderi (NC State)
Numerical Implementation of a Differential Scattering Cross Section Solver for Arbitrary Screened Coulomb Potentials
Stephen D. Armstrong (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Optimizing Spectral and Energy Resolution with Machine Learning for 1mm CdTe Quantum Detectors
Angela Tomita (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin), Ling J. Meng (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Can Yang (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Calculation of the Delayed Heating in Repeated Structures Using the MCNP-ORIGEN Activation Automation Tool
Roberto Fairhurst Agosta (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tomasz Kozlowski (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for the Detection of Fissile Mass
Nelson H. Snow (Idaho State), Mitchell Frasure (Idaho State), Grant Stockett (Idaho State), Elaina M. Nava (Idaho State Univeristy), Chad L. Pope (Idaho State)
Human Health Risk Assessment in case of Hypothetical Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Accident
Mertcan Atikler (Ohio State), Vaibhav Sinha (Ohio State)
Air Sterilization via Atmospheric Plasma
Andrew Liu (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), John Vincent B. Cauilan (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Michael R. Hysick (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Joe Solar (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), David N. Ruzic (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Molten Salt Material Quantification with Glow Discharge Electrolysis
Alina Jugan (NCSU), Kayla Hahn (NCSU), Alexander W. Bataller (NCSU)
Investigation of a Novel Transitional Layer Design for Integrating Tungsten and Reduced Activation Ferritic Steel for Fusion Reactors
Ishtiaque Karim Robin (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Tim Graening (ORNL), Ying Yang (ORNL), Yutai Katoh (ORNL), Steven J. Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Influence of Hf- and Sm-doping on Radiation-Induced Redox Effects in CeO2
Levi Holler (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Maik Lang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
TRIGA Reactor Augmentation for Pu-238 Production
Benjamin Chi (US Naval Academy), Hitoshi Cullinan (US Naval Academy), Dylan Pattison (US Naval Academy), Harold Schlatter (US Naval Academy)
Overview of Power Reactor Noise Analysis for Advanced Reactors
Harun Ardiansyah (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tomasz Kozlowski (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Radiation Shielding for a Martian Habitat
Clifford T. Vuong (US Naval Academy), David Huizenga (US Naval Academy), Jordan Blair (US Naval Academy), Antonio Sanchez (US Naval Academy)
The Accumulation of Helium and Hydrogen in Interfaces of Dispersion Strengthened Tungsten with Carbides
Levko B. Higgins (Penn State)
Large Eddy Simulations of Channel Flow with one Heated Wall for Liquid Metals and High Temperature Gasses
Theodore M. Chu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Image Sensor and Power Supply for Portable Fast Neutron Detection
Stephen W. McKinney (US Military Academy), Conor M. Riordan (US Military Academy), Kyle Swindler (US Military Academy)
Neutronics Analysis of Advanced Reactor Vessel Emissivity
Patrick Walther (NCSU), Victor R. Gonzalez-Ibarra (NCSU), Dakota Randle (South Carolina State), Xu Wu (NCSU), John F. Zino (GE Hitachi), Zachary Sweeney (GE Hitachi)
Structural Stability of REE-PO4 (REE = Sm,Tb) Under Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation
Cale C. Overstreet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Maik Lang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Eric O'Quinn (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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