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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Project delivers a universal waste canister for advanced reactors
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear has announced the completion of a three-year project to manufacture, physically test, and validate a disposal-ready universal canister system (UCS) for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from advanced 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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