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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods
Tuesday, October 11, 2022|10:15–11:55AM EDT|Branle
Session Chair:
Ian Porter (GE)
Alternate Chair:
Chao Wang (Framatome)
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Assessing New Accident Tolerant Fuel and Cladding Models in the Fuel Performance Code Bison
10:15–10:40AM EDT
Gyanender Singh (INL), Yifeng Che (INL), Kyle Gamble (INL), Aysenur Toptan (INL), Jason Hales (INL), Stephen Novascone (INL)
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Fuel Performance Analysis of Cr-Coated Fuel During Startup and Normal Operation of LWRs Using FEMAXI-8
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Soki Dehara (Waseda Univ.), Akifumi Yamaji (Waseda Univ.), Yoshiyuki Nemoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shinichiro Yamashita (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Out-Of-Reactor Creep Analysis of Chromium Surface-Coated Optimized ZIRLO™ Cladding
11:05–11:30AM EDT
J.M. Vidal (ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas), I. del Río (ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas), J. Walters (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Y. Long (Westinghouse Electric Co.), O. Linsuain (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
PCMI Analyses of SiC Cladded Fuel During BWR LOCA with FEMAXI-ATF
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Yutaka Nakao (Waseda Univ.), Akifumi Yamaji (Waseda Univ.), Yoshiyuki Nemoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shinichiro Yamashita (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
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