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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by OPD
Monday, November 16, 2020|3:40–5:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Piyush Sabharwall
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell
Staff Producer:
Paul LaTour (American Nuclear Society)
This session will primarily focus on the research and development activities at various universities in the area of gas cooled, molten salt cooled, lead cooled, sodium cooled, and rabbit development. The presentations and speakers will be: 1) Na Cartridge Loop Development (Mark Anderson and Seungjin Kim); 2) GFR Cartridge Loop Development (N.K. Anand and Xiaodong Sun); 3) Lead Cartridge Loop Development (Osman Anderoglu and Heng Ban); 4) MS Cartridge Loop Development (Rich Christensen and Mike Simpson); and 5) Rabbit System Development (Sean McDeavitt)
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