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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
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 (TAMU), Mathieu Hursin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
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