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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Biscayne 1
Session Chair:
David Chandler (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Justin K. Watson (Univ. Florida)
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Plutonium-238 Production Sensitivity and Validation Studies Continued: Effects of Core Component Compositions
3:15–3:35PM EST
D. Chandler (ORNL), D. Hartanto (ORNL), J.W. Bae (ORNL), K.M. Burg (ORNL), Y.E. Robert (ORNL)
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Beryllium Reflector Experiment Effects on High Flux Isotope Reactor Performance Metrics
3:35–3:55PM EST
D. Chandler (ORNL)
Preliminary Analysis of Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU) Fuel Performance in the MIT Reactor Fission Converter Experimental Facility
3:55–4:15PM EST
Caroline Sears (MIT), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Lin-Wen Hu (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT), Kyle Anderson (ANL), Valerio Mascolino (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
SCALE Inventory and Reactivity Analysis as Part of the Hermes 2021 PSAR Review
4:15–4:35PM EST
Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Ben Betzler (Radiant), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
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Neutronic Simulation of Daily Load Following Operation in a PWR-Based SMR Core
4:35–4:55PM EST
Woo Jin Lee (Hanyang Univ.), Sung Hyun Cho (Hanyang Univ.), Ser Gi Hong (Hanyang Univ.)
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