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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|10:15AM–12:00PM EST|Cardozo
Session Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Molten Salt Irradiation Capabilities at the NC State PULSTAR Research Reactor
10:15–10:35AM EST
Austin J. Wells (North Carolina State University), Ayman I. Hawari (TAMU), Ming Liu (North Carolina State University), Nicholas A. Poole (TAMU)
Paper
Simulation Assisted Calibration of a Molten Salt Off-Gas Stream for LIBS
10:35–10:55AM EST
Nicholas A. Poole (North Carolina State University), Ayman I. Hawari (North Carolina State University)
Experience Building a Molten-Salt Forced-Circulation Loop at the MIT Reactor
10:55–11:15AM EST
Charles W. Forsberg (MIT), David M. Carpenter (MIT), Ayman I. Hawari (North Carolina Sate University), Raluca O. Scarlat (University of California at Berkeley), Kevin Robb (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Michael A. Borrello (Univ. California, Berkeley), Haley Williams (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Developing Methodology for Characterization of Fretting Wear Damage to Steels in a Liquid Sodium Environment
11:15–11:35AM EST
Ceris Hamilton, Guillaume P. Mignot (Oregon State University), Wade R. Marcum (Oregon State University), Azhar Vellore (TerraPower, LLC), Kelly Harrington (TerraPower, LLC)
Corrosion Behavior of Cold-Sprayed Ni and Ti Coatings in Chloride-rich Environments
11:35–11:55AM EST
Jeongjun Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)), Jinwook Choi (Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)), Hwasung Yeom (Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH))
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