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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
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|1:00–2:45PM EST|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Zeyun Wu
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
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The Requirement for the New TSL Data of Calcium Hydride Based on the Experiment Results of NRG: (1) Measurement Method
1:00–1:20PM EST
Rui Akayama (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions Corporation), Rei Kimura (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions Corporation), Ayumu Okano (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions Corporation), Daisuke Ito (Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science), Naoya Odaira (Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science), Kei Ito (Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science), Yasushi Saito (Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science)
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The Requirement for the New TSL Data of Calcium Hydride Based on the Experiment Results of NRG: (2) Requirement for Nuclear Data
1:20–1:40PM EST
Rei Kimura (Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation), Rui Akayama (Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation), Ayumu Okano (Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation), Daisuke Ito (Kyoto University), Naoya Odaira (Kyoto University), Kei Ito (Kyoto University), Yasushi Saito (Kyoto University)
The Effect of Nuclear Data Discrepancies on Criticality Simulations of Molten Salt Fast Reactors
1:40–2:00PM EST
Madison Grove (Virginia Commonwealth University), Mohamed H. Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth University), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Generative AI for Nuclear System Design - A Reactor Physics Component
2:00–2:20PM EST
Daniel L. Watson (Texas A&M University College Station), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
MINI-21 Core Neutronics Performance Assessment using Reactor Grade Uranium Fuel
2:20–2:40PM EST
John D. Bess (JFoster & Assoc.), Gray S. Chang (JFoster & Assoc.), Julie Foster (JFoster & Associates, LLC)
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