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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Researchers use one-of-a-kind expertise and capabilities to test fuels of tomorrow
At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Technical Session|FCWMD
Wednesday, October 8, 2025|3:15–4:55PM CDT|Cumberland South
Session Chair:
Aylin Kucuk
Co-Chair:
Shun Hirooka
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Fuel Pellet Design for High Burnup
3:15–3:40PM CDT
Swaminathan Vaidyanathan (ANFMSJ)
Presented by Brenden Mervin (EPRI)
Paper
Analysis of the Behavior of ATF Microcell UO2 Fuel under Irradiation
3:40–4:05PM CDT
V. D'Ambrosi (CEA), R. Masson (CEA), J. Fauque (CEA), J. Lechelle (CEA), L. Portelette (CEA), N. Chikhi (CEA)
Manufacturing and Characterization of UO2-Gd2O3 Pellet with High Gd Contents
4:05–4:30PM CDT
Jae Ho Yang (KAERI), Ji-Hwan Lee (KAERI), Dong-Seok Kim (KAERI), Dong-Joo Kim (KAERI), Ji-Hae Yoon (KAERI), Yeon-Soo Na (Korea Nuclear Fuel Co.)
Post-Irradiation Examination of a Wrought FeCrAl Alloy C26M Following Commercial Reactor Irradiation
4:30–4:55PM CDT
Caleb Massey (ORNL), Ben Garrison (ORNL), Jesse Werden (ORNL), Casey McKinney (ORNL), Dan Lutz (Global Nuclear Fuel), Russ Fawcett (Global Nuclear Fuel), Rajnikant Umretiya (GE Research Center), Hamdy Abouelella (GE Vernova), Randall Dunavant (Southern Company), Yukinori Yamamoto (ORNL), Geeta Kumari (ORNL), Kevin Field (Univ. Michigan), Jason Harp (ORNL)
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