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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Risk-informed, performance-based design in INL’s MARVEL reactor
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) has held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. Former RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods. He then welcomed this month’s speaker: Doug Gerstner, a nuclear safety engineer at Idaho National Laboratory, who presented “Application of a Qualitative RIPB Approach for the MARVEL Microreactor at INL.”
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Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|8:00–9:45AM EST|Cardozo
Session Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Identified Gaps in FLiBe Fuel Salt Thermal Physical Properties for NRC Licensing
8:00–8:20AM EST
Dilan Kurukulasuriya (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth University), Stephen T. Lam (University of Massachusetts at Lowell)
Paper
Safety Analysis on Fission Induced Thermophysical Property Alterations of MCFR Fuel Salt
8:20–8:40AM EST
D. Nathanael Gardner (Univ. California, Berkeley), Zachary A. Falkowski (Univ. California, Berkeley), Ludovic Jantzen (Univ. California, Berkeley), Juan M. Barrera Salazar (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (University of California Berkeley), Raluca O. Scarlat (University of California Berkeley)
Archimedes Method for Molten Salt Density Using Vacuum Oil
8:40–9:00AM EST
Brindley E. Wade (TAMU), Luis H. Ortega (TAMU), Delia Perez-Nunez (TAMU), T. D. Stout (Texas A&M University)
Viscosity Measurements of Molten LiCl-KCl via Passive Microrheology
9:00–9:20AM EST
Hayden S. Bland (North Carolina State University), Alexander W. Bataller (North Carolina State University)
In situ Electrochemical Detection of Corrosion Products from Molten Salt Pump Candidate Materials
9:20–9:40AM EST
Michael Borrello (University of California Berkeley), Raluca O. Scarlat (University of California Berkeley)
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