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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
Technical Session
Wednesday, July 24, 2024|8:00–9:50AM CDT|Madison Ballroom
Session Chair:
Monica Gehrig
Alternate Chair:
Juliana Pacheco Duarte (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Session Organizer:
Paul P. Wilson
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MHD Analysis of Dual Coolant Lead Lithium Blanket for Spherical Tokamak Advanced Reactor
8:00–8:25AM CDT
D. Gupta (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), A. Brooks (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), T. Brown (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), A. Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), B. Linn (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), J. Menard (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
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Numerical Simulation of High Hartmann Number Liquid Metal Flows in Fusion Devices
8:25–8:45AM CDT
A. Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), D. Gupta (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), R. Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Investigation of Anchor Link Magnetohydrodynamic Effects in Toroidally Symmetric Lead-Lithium Blanket Concept
8:45–9:05AM CDT
Yuqiao Fan (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
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