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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS Winter Conference: DOE, NRC leaders stress need for speedier nuclear approval
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Chris Wright
During speeches at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference & Expo, happening this week in Washington, D.C., Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair David Wright both promised that the Trump administration will speed up nuclear reviews so the U.S. can maintain leadership in nuclear energy.
The DOE’s Wright took a stab at the NRC’s traditionally slow bureaucratic processes in approving primarily large light water reactors in the past, saying that the agency needs to speed up to meet the greater demand for new small modular reactors.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Biscayne 2
Session Chair:
Carlo Fiorina (TAMU)
Alternate Chair:
Stefano Terlizzi (Penn State)
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Selection of Reload Fuel TRU Fraction for Online Refueling of Waste-Burning Stable Salt Reactor
10:00–10:20AM EST
Seungug Jae (Univ. Michigan), Won Sik Yang (Univ. Michigan), Thanh Hua (ANL), Yan Cao (ANL)
Paper
Effect of Turbulent Diffusion on Delayed Neutron Precursors in the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE)
10:20–10:40AM EST
Mohamed H. Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Dynamic Analysis of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) Using Uranium-233 Fuel Salt: A Multi-Physics Simulation Approach
10:40–11:00AM EST
Faisal A. Alseaidan (Univ. California, Berkeley), Tatiana Siaraferas (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Coupled Neutronics -- Thermal-Hydraulics -- Thermomechanics Modeling of Molten Chloride Reactor
11:00–11:20AM EST
Mauricio Tano (INL), Ramiro Freile (INL), Rodrigo de Oliveira (INL), Samuel A. Walker (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL)
Impact of Heaters on Molten Salt Reactor Dynamics
11:20–11:40AM EST
Thabit Abuqudaira (TAMU), Pavel Tsvetkov (TAMU), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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