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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|12:15–2:00PM EST
Session Chair:
Luca Capriotti
Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Jessie Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Oxidation of Yttrium Hydride Moderator for the Transformational Challenge Reactor
Ken Kane (ORNL), Padraig Stack (University of Akron), Peter Mouche (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Bruce A. Pint (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Xunxiang Hu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Paper
Thermal properties and reversible transformation in yttrium hydride
Artem A. Trofimov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Xunxiang Hu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Hsin Wang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Ying Yang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kurt A. Terrani (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Towards atom irradiation and examination of nuclear materials
Junhua Jiang (Idaho National Laboratory), Congjian Wang (Idaho National Laboratory)
Thermomechanical Properties of Bulk Yttrium Hydride for High-Temperature Moderator Application
Xunxiang Hu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Mehdi Balooch (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kurt A. Terrani (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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