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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|10:00–11:40AM CDT|Salon B
Session Chair:
Christopher Matthews
Co-Chair:
Fausto Franceschini
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Micromechanical Properties of the SiC and PyC Layers in Tristructural Isotropic Coated Particles
10:00–10:25AM CDT
Katherine I. Montoya (ORNL), Erik Herbert (ORNL), Andrew T. Nelson (ORNL), Tyler J. Gerczak (ORNL)
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Sensitivity Analysis Applied to Mechanistic Calculation for Effective Diffusivity of Ag through the SiC Layer in TRISO particles with BISON
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Caitlyn B. Parsons (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Pierre-Clément A. Simon (Idaho National Lab), Brian D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Investigation into the Effects of Pd Chemical Attack on Silicon Carbide in TRISO Particle Fuel
10:50–11:15AM CDT
Bailey T. Bertrand (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Wen Jiang (North Carolina State University Nuclear Engineering Department), Brian D. Wirth (University of Tennessee Nuclear Engineering Department)
Lower Length Scale Simulations of Pd Solubility and Transport in TRISO Fuel Kernels
11:15–11:40AM CDT
Michael W. Cooper (LANL), Benjamin Liu (LANL), Antoine Claisse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Liping Cao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Darren Skitt (Westinghouse Electric Co.), PARVEZ KHAMBATTA (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Christopher Matthews (LANL)
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