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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Solar developer Geenex looks to enter nuclear market
Charlotte, N.C.–based Geenex, a developer of utility-scale solar power and battery storage within the PJM Interconnection, announced on Tuesday that it is expanding into nuclear energy development, focusing on the siting and permitting of advanced small modular reactors.
Technical Session
Wednesday, October 8, 2025|10:00–11:40AM CDT|Salon B
Session Chair:
Brenden Mervin
Co-Chair:
Matthieu Aumand
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Understanding the Thermomechanical Response of Ferritic and Ferritic-Martensitic Steel Claddings to Accident Transients
10:00–10:25AM CDT
Samuel B. Bell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Mackenzie Ridley (ORNL), Nathan Capps (ORNL), Amy Godfrey (ORNL), Caleb Massey (ORNL)
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Behavior of Inert Fission Gas Under Accelerated Irradiation Conditions for Prototypical LWR Conditions
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Mutaz Alshannaq (The ohio state University), Md Minaruzzaman (The ohio state University), Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.), Adam X. Zabriskie (INL), Marat Khafizov (The Ohio State University)
Development of a Reduced Order Model for the Thermal Assessment of Fuel Assembly Dry Lift for Refueling a Liquid Metal Fast Reactor
10:50–11:15AM CDT
Emre Tatli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Mike Epstein (Fauske & Associates LLC), Sung J. Lee (Fauske & Associates LLC), Cory Stansbury (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Mangiarotti), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Alireza Mofidi (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
Fuel Pin Irradiation Tests in the High Flux Reactor: Past Experiments and New Experiment Design for Screening of Innovative Gen IV Fuel Candidates
11:15–11:40AM CDT
Sander Van Til (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), Ronald Beck (NRG PALLAS), Tim v. Lunteren (NRG PALLAS)
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