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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 RPD
Tuesday, November 11, 2025|1:00–2:45PM EST|Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Travis Lange (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu
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Update on New Models Available on the Virtual Test Bed (VTB) in 2025
1:00–1:20PM EST
Lise Charlot (Idaho National Laboratory), Emily R. Shemon (Argonne National Laboratory), Guillaume Giudicelli (Idaho National Laboratory), Patrick Behne (Idaho National Laboratory), Benjamin Spencer (Idaho National Laboratory), Zachary M. Prince (Idaho National Laboratory), Yinbin Miao (Argonne National Laboratory), Yan Cao (Argonne National Laboratory), Soon K. Lee (Argonne National Laboratory), Nicolas E. Stauff (Argonne National Laboratory), Travis Lange (Idaho National Laboratory), Olin W. Calvin (Idaho National Laboratory), Kylee Swanson (Idaho National Laboratory), Daniel C. Yankura (Idaho National Laboratory), Pierre-Clement A. Simon (Idaho National Laboratory), Masashi Shimada (Idaho National Laboratory), Thomas Folk (Idaho National Laboratory - National Reactor Innovation Center)
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NEAMS Microreactor Models Submitted to the VTB in 2025
1:20–1:40PM EST
Yinbin Miao (Argonne National Laboratory), Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed (Argonne National Laboratory), Yan Cao (Argonne National Laboratory), Soon K. Lee (Argonne National Laboratory), Yiqi Yu (Argonne National Laboratory), Kun Mo (Argonne National Laboratory), Nicolas Stauff (Argonne National Laboratory), Emily Shemon (Argonne National Laboratory)
Development of a Modular Framework for the Verification of the NRIC-DOME Shield Two-step Approach
1:40–2:00PM EST
Joffrey Dorville (Argonne National Laboratory), Paul A. Ferney (Idaho National Laboratory), Mohamed Elkamash (Idaho National Laboratory), Paul K. Romano (Argonne National Laboratory), Lise Charlot (Idaho National Laboratory), Emily Shemon (Argonne National Laboratory)
A Variance Reduction Workflow to Compute Neutron and Photon Flux Maps in the DOME Facility
2:00–2:20PM EST
Paul A. Ferney (Young Members Group), Mohamed Elkamash (INL), Joffrey Dorville (ANL), Paul Romano (ANL), Lise Charlot (INL), Emily R. Shemon (ANL)
Modeling Radiation Heat Transfer in The DOME Shield Cavity
2:20–2:40PM EST
Mohamed M. Elkamash (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Lise Charlot (Idaho National Laboratory), Joffrey J. Dorville (Argonne National Laboratory), Paul A. Ferney (Idaho National Laboratory), Emily R. Shemon (Argonne National Laboratory), Paul Romano (Argonne National Laboratory), April J. Novak (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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