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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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TVA nominees promise to support advanced reactor development
Four nominees to serve on the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that they support the build-out of new advanced nuclear reactors to meet the increased energy demand being shouldered by the country’s largest public utility.
Technical Session
Monday, July 22, 2024|3:15–5:05PM CDT|Madison Ballroom
Session Chair:
Iole Palermo
Session Organizers:
Paul P. Wilson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Alternate Chair:
Ethan Peterson (Massachussets Institute of Technology)
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Lithium Enrichment Needs for Different Tritium Breeding Blanket Concepts
3:15–3:40PM CDT
P.W. Humrickhouse (ORNL), M.L. Gehrig (ORNL)
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Coupled Neutronics and Thermal Hydraulics Simulation of Tritium Breeding and Its Transport in the ARC-Class Fusion Blanket
3:40–4:05PM CDT
Arpan Sircar (ORNL), Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL), Cami Collins (ORNL)
Tritium Speciation and Transport in Molten Salts: Insights from the BABY Experiment
4:05–4:25PM CDT
N. Goles (MIT), R. Delaporte-Mathurin (MIT), C.S. Dunn (MIT), E. Edwards (MIT), S.E. Ferry (MIT), E. Lamere (MIT), A.T. Lanzrath (MIT), R. Leccacorvi (MIT), S. Meschini (MIT), E.E. Peterson (MIT), S. Segantin (MIT), R.F. Vieira (MIT), D.G. Whyte (MIT), K.B. Woller (MIT), W. Zhou (MIT)
Neutronics Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification of LiCl-LiF Molten Salt as a Liquid Tritium Breeding Blanket
4:25–4:45PM CDT
C.S. Dunn (MIT), E.E. Peterson (MIT), B. Ebiwonjumi (MIT), S. Segantin (MIT), W. Zhou (MIT), S. Ferry (MIT), K. Woller (MIT)
Molten Salt Activation Considerations in D-T Fusion Tokamak Design
4:45–5:05PM CDT
Austin Carter (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Caroline Sorensen Barthel (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Ryanne Kennedy (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
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