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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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U.K. consents to Hinkley Point B decommissioning
The U.K. government’s Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted EDF Energy formal consent to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor was permanently shut down in August 2022, and site owner EDF applied to ONR for decommissioning consent in August 2024.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Staff Producer:
Jay Bogardus (American Nuclear Society)
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Calculation of 3D Precursor Distributions in Fast MSRs via Coupled CFD and Neutronics Approach
Yeon Sang Jung (Argonne National Laboratory), Jun Fang (Argonne National Laboratory), Dillon R. Shaver (Argonne National Laboratory), Changho Lee (Argonne National Laboratory), Bo Feng (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Validation of SCALE for Molten Salt Reactors using the MSRE Benchmark
John E. Barlow (The University of Texas at Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (University of Texas at Austin)
Nuclear data uncertainty challenges in Molten Salt Reactor safeguards
Andre A. Vidal Soares (Pennsylvania State University), Azaree Lintereur (Penn State University), Benjamin R. Betzler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Amanda Jonhsen (Penn State University), Joshua D. Flygare (Penn State University), William J. Walters (Penn State University), Louise G. Worral (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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