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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
Wednesday, October 8, 2025|8:00–9:40AM CDT|Salon B
Session Chair:
Aylin Kucuk
Co-Chair:
Yixing Sung
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The U.S. Next Generation Fuels (NGF) Program: Unleashing Advanced Nuclear Fuels
8:00–8:25AM CDT
Daniel M. Wachs (INL)
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The Use of Powder Injection Molding for the Fabrication of Oxygen-Sensitive Advanced Nuclear Fuels
8:25–8:50AM CDT
Deana Tsang (LANL), Adrien Terricabras (LANL), Antoine Claisse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Joshua White (LANL)
Progress Toward Revolutionary Reactor Designs using Nature-Inspired Nuclear Fuel
8:50–9:15AM CDT
Nicolas E. Woolstenhulme (INL), Nicolas P. Martin (INL), Joshua Zelina (INL), Paul A. Ferney (INL), Austen D. Fradeneck (INL), Adam Zabriskie (INL), Mark H. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Brett Prussack (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Youyeon Choi (MIT), Jeffrey L. Reed (Framatome), Kai Tai (Framatome)
Experimental and Computational Studies on Thermal Hydraulics of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Lattices as Nuclear Fuel
9:15–9:40AM CDT
Brett A. Prussack (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Erik Pagenkopf (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Silvino B. Prieto (INL), Austen Fradeneck (INL), Zander Ray (Oregon State), Joshua Gess (Oregon State), Tai Kai (Framatome), Jeffrey L. Reed (Framatome), Nicholas E. Woolstenhulme (INL), Gregory Nellis (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mark H. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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