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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC approves TerraPower construction permit
Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has approved TerraPower’s construction permit application for Kemmerer Unit 1, the company’s first deployment of Natrium, its flagship sodium fast reactor.
This approval is a significant milestone on three fronts. For TerraPower, it represents another step forward in demonstrating its technology. For the Department of Energy, it reflects progress (despite delays) for the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). For the NRC, it is the first approval granted to a commercial reactor in nearly a decade—and the first approval of a commercial non–light water reactor in more than 40 years.
Technical Session
Monday, July 22, 2024|10:00–11:50AM CDT|Madison Ballroom
Session Chair:
Sunday C. Aduloju
Alternate Chair:
Iole Palermo
Session Organizer:
Paul P. Wilson
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An Open-Source Digital Engineering Pipeline for Enabling In-silico Design and Qualification of Tritium Breeding Devices
10:00–10:25AM CDT
H. Brooks (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), C. Byers (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Davis (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), S. Dixon (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Dubas (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), L. Fletcher (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), L. Humphrey (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), S. Mungale (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), P. Shriwise (ANL)
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FENIX: Toward a Fully Integrated Multiphysics Framework for Plasma Facing Component Modeling
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Pierre-Clement A. Simon (INL), Casey T. Icenhour (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Logan H. Harbour (INL), Derek Gaston (INL), Masashi Shimada (INL), Grayson Gall (NCSU), Amanda M. Lietz (NCSU), Mahmoud Eltawila (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Helen Brooks (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
Scalable Open Source Multiphysics Tools for Induction Heating Simulations of Fusion Components in Electromagnetic Fields
10:50–11:10AM CDT
A. I. Blair (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), H. Bergallo Rocha (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), E. Palmer (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), W. Ellis (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Davis (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
VERTEX-CFD: A Multiphysics Solver for Fusion Applications
11:10–11:30AM CDT
Marco Delchini (ORNL), Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Arpan Sicar (ORNL), Stuart Slattery (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL), Ryan Glasby (ORNL), Franklin Curtis (ORNL)
Multiphysics Modeling of the Electromagnetic Loads on the First Wall During Plasma Disruptions
11:30–11:50AM CDT
Sunday Aduloju (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Paul Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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