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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Radiant to build first microreactor at Tenn. Manhattan Project site
Radiant Industries will build its first portable nuclear reactor at the site of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
The land for Radiant’s new factory includes portions of the K-27 and K-29 Manhattan Project sites. The company plans to test Kaleidos, a 1-MW nuclear microreactor, in 2026, with first deployments expected soon after.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM EST|Longboat 2
Session Chairs:
Andrea Saltos (CFS)
Brenden J. Heidrich
Session Organizer:
Mathieu Dupont
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Overview of the Neutron Radiography Reactor (NRAD) for Neutron Imaging and In-Core Experiment Capabilities at Idaho National Laboratory
8:00–8:20AM EST
Peng Xu (INL), Aaron Craft (INL), Mike Ruddell (INL)
Paper
SCALE Shielding Calculations for Advanced Reactor Accident Scenarios
8:20–8:40AM EST
Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Neutron Irradiation Potentials to Ascertain the Value of RAFM Steels in Thermal, Fast, and Fusion Reactors
8:40–9:00AM EST
Nicolas Woolstenhulme (INL), Andrew Bascom (INL), Hanns Gietl (INL), Charles Hirst (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ross Radel (SHINE Technologies)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Contributions of the Flexible Neutron Source at UTK to Radiation Protection and Shielding Modeling at Fission and Fusion Facilities
9:00–9:20AM EST
Vladimir Sobes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Wes Hines (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Amanda Lewis (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxvilee), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
Facilities for Irradiation, Examination, and Education at the PULSTAR Reactor
9:20–9:40AM EST
M. Liu (NCSU), Z. Boulton (NCSU), Q. Cai (NCSU), N.C. Fleming (NCSU), E. Korobkina (NCSU), A. Wells (NCSU), A.I. Hawari (NCSU)
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