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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
International High Level Radioactive Waste Management (IHLRWM 2025)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|10:15AM–12:00PM EST|Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Jens Birkholzer (Berkeley Lab)
Alternate Chair:
Jonathan Major (EPA)
Session Organizer:
Erika Holt
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Establishing the Infrastructure Required to Foster Innovative Disposal Concept Optimization
10:15–10:35AM EST
Hiroyuki Umeki (Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan), Takafumi Hamamoto (NUMO, Japan), Takeshi Ebashi (NUMO, Japan), Keisuke Ishida (NUMO, Japan), Ian G. McKinley (McKinley Consulting)
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Project Development and Optimization of the Swiss Disposal Program
10:35–10:55AM EST
Irina Gaus (Nagra), Efstathios Vlassopoulos (Nagra), Ingo Blechschmidt (Nagra), Severin Wälchli (Nagra)
Beishan Underground Research Laboratory for Geological Disposal of High Level Radioactive Waste in China, Update 2025
10:55–11:15AM EST
Ju Wang (Beijing Research Institute of Uranium)
SITEX.Network Analyses on Deep Borehole Repository
11:15–11:35AM EST
Nadja Zeleznik (EIMV), Muriel Rocher (ASNR), Dephine Pellegrini (ASNR)
Development of Regulatory Requirements for Site-Specific URLs for DGR in Korea
11:35–11:55AM EST
Sangsu Park (Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety), Jeheon Bang (KINS), Jinyong Park (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
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