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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|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 Pyrolytic Carbon 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 (INL), 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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