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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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India’s PFBR attains criticality at last
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed it “a proud moment for India” when on April 6 the 500-MWe, sodium-cooled Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieved initial criticality. This milestone, which comes some 22 years after the continually delayed PFBR project began, marks India’s entrance into the second stage of its three-stage nuclear program, which has the ultimate goal of supporting the country’s nuclear power program with its significant thorium reserves.
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods
Wednesday, October 12, 2022|10:15–11:55AM EDT|Branle
Session Chair:
Ian Porter (GE)
Alternate Chair:
Olivier Marchand (IRSN)
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Accelerated Fuel Qualification: BISON Validation to In-Situ Cladding Burst Test
10:15–10:40AM EDT
Nathan Capps (ORNL), Ryan Sweet (ORNL), Kenneth Kane (ORNL), Samuel Bell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Development in OFFBEAT of a Dynamic-Mesh Incremental Stress-Strain Solver and Validation Against the IFA 650.2 Ballooning Experiment
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Edoardo Luciano Brunetto (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Andreas Pautz (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Mechanical Property Evaluation with Nanoindentation Method on Zircaloy-4 Cladding Tube After LOCA-Simulated Experiment
11:05–11:30AM EDT
K. Kakiuchi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), A. Yamauchi (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority), M. Amaya (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Y. Udagawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), K. Kitano (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority)
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