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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Leak-tightness test on deck for SRS mega unit
The Savannah River Site in South Carolina will begin a leak-tightness test to qualify the megavolume Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 10 to store up to 33 million gallons of solidified, decontaminated salt solution produced at the site.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|3:15–5:00PM EST|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Koroush Shirvan
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Alternate Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh
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Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs for Zero-Shot Classification of Two-Phase Flows in Nuclear Reactors
3:15–3:35PM EST
Polina Matesha (Bio Sensing Research Group, Research Institute of Science and Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab), Bassam A. Khuwaileh (University of Sharjah)
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Progress on a Representativity Study of a RELAP5-3D Model of the High Temperature Test Facility
3:35–3:55PM EST
Jonathan L. Barthle (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Aaron S. Epiney (Idaho National Laboratory), Robert Kile (Idaho National Laboratory), Nicholas R. Brown (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Satellite-Based Explainable Deep Learning as an Option to Assure Robust Remote Performance Monitoring in Deployment Scenarios for SMRs and Microreactors
3:55–4:15PM EST
Hui-Yu Hsieh (TAMU), Thabit M. Abuqudaira (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Propagating Time-Dependent Stochastic Uncertainty via Depletion Sensitivity Coefficients in OpenMC
4:15–4:35PM EST
Sydney A. Dowben (Univ. New Mexico), Benjamin Murphy (Univ. New Mexico), Christopher Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico)
Uncertainty Reduction Driven Optimal Sensor Selection in Nuclear Waste Recycling Plant Design
4:35–4:55PM EST
Scott Evans (GE Vernova Advanced Research), Hao Huang (GE Vernova Advanced Research), Helena Goldfarb (GE Vernova Advanced Research), Arun Subramanian (GE Vernova Advanced Research), Sachini Piyoni Ekanayake (GE Vernova), Philip Honnold (Sandia National Lab), Nathan T. Shoman (Sandia National Lab), Peter Koudal (GE Aerospace Research), Dan Yang (GE Aerospace Research), Nick Abate (GE Aerospace Research), John Carbone (GE Aerospace Research), Ross F. Radel (SHINE Technologies)
Preliminary Implementation of a Generalized Perturbation Theory-Based Sensitivity Calculation Capability in Griffin
4:55–5:15PM EST
Seoyoon Jeon (Argonne National Laboratory), Yaqi Wang (Idaho National Laboratory), Changho Lee (Argonne National Laboratory), Hansol Park (Argonne National Laboratory)
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