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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NN Asks: What did you learn from ANS’s Nuclear 101?
Mike Harkin
When ANS first announced its new Nuclear 101 certificate course, I was excited. This felt like a course tailor-made for me, a transplant into the commercial nuclear world. I enrolled for the inaugural session held in November 2024, knowing it was going to be hard (this is nuclear power, of course)—but I had been working on ramping up my knowledge base for the past year, through both my employer and at a local college.
The course was a fast-and-furious roller-coaster ride through all the key components of the nuclear power industry, in one highly challenging week. In fact, the challenges the students experienced caught even the instructors by surprise. Thankfully, the shared intellectual stretch we students all felt helped us band together to push through to the end.
We were all impressed with the quality of the instructors, who are some of the top experts in the field. We appreciated not only their knowledge base but their support whenever someone struggled to understand a concept.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Labrid A/B
Session Chair:
Leah Squires
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Alternate Chair:
Christina Leggett
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Commercialization of High-Density High Assay Low Enriched Uranium Fuel Systems
3:15–3:35PM EST
Michael Catalan (PNNL), Matthew Pippin (Y-12 National Security Complex), Gunes Argon (BWXT Nuclear Fuels)
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Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table for Spent Tri-Structural Isotropic (TRISO) Particles in Storage and Transportation
3:35–3:55PM EST
Kevin Kelly (EPRI), Thomas Dabrow (MPR Assoc.), Cecile Dame (MPR Assoc.), Dan Moneghan (EPRI)
Advanced Reactor Irradiated Graphite Lifecycle Analysis: From Source Term to Repository Performance
3:55–4:15PM EST
Liam S. Hines (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Haruko Wainwight (MIT)
Nuclide Importance to Decay Heat in Advanced Reactors' Spent Fuel Transportation and Storage
4:15–4:35PM EST
Germina Procop (ORNL), Yves Robert (ORNL)
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Preliminary Study for Recycling Heavy Metal from the Special Purpose Reactor Used Fuel in the Advanced Burner Reactor
4:35–4:55PM EST
Cihang Lu (Brookhaven), Arantxa Cuadra (Brookhaven)
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