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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
Tuesday, October 7, 2025|1:00–2:40PM CDT|Brentwood/Franklin
Session Chair:
Jeff Kobelak
Co-Chair:
Ian Porter
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Development of CUPID-FRAPTRAN Integrated Code for LBLOCA Analysis
1:00–1:25PM CDT
SungUk Lee (KAERI), Hyochan Kim (KAERI), Chang-Hwan Shin (KAERI), Jae Ryong Lee (KAERI), Seung-Jun Lee (KAERI)
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Capabilities, Recent Developments, and Validation Status of the TESPA-ROD Fuel Performance Code for Nuclear Reactor Safety Analysis
1:25–1:50PM CDT
Jonathan Sappl (GRS), Aleksandra Rezchikova (GRS), Robert Kilger (GRS)
Code-to-Code Benchmarking of PCMI among High-Fidelity Fuel Performance Codes
1:50–2:15PM CDT
Milica Krstovic (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Isabelle Guenot-Delahaie (CEA), Asko Arkoma (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Bruno Michel (CEA), Mathieu Hursin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
On the Implementation of a Qualification Model for Nuclear Safety Codes, and its Application to the Verification & Validation of OFFBEAT
2:15–2:40PM CDT
Karl J. X. Sturm (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Edoardo L. Brunetto (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Sara Maccario (Paul Scherrer Institute), Carlo Fiorina (Texas A&M University College Station), Mathieu Hursin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
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