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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DOE seeks proposals for AI data centers at Paducah
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for offer (RFO) seeking proposals from U.S. companies to build and power AI data centers on the DOE’s Paducah Site in Kentucky. Companies are being sought to potentially enter into one or more long-term leasing agreements at the site that would be solely funded by the applicants.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD|Cosponsored by RPD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Prashant K. Jain (Oak Ridge National Lab)
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Alternate Chair:
Emilian Popov
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (American Nuclear Society)
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Pressure Vessel Design Optimization of the Transformational Challenge Reactor
Nathan D. See (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jesse Heinemann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Phillip Chesser (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Sacit M. Cetiner (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Benjamin R. Betzler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Ex-Core Thermofluidic Modeling and Simulations for Transformational Challenge Reactor
B. R. Betzler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Brian J. Ade (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Alberto Talamo (Argonne National Laboratory), Subhasish Mohanty (Argonne National Laboratory), Aurelien X. Bergeron (Argonne National Laboratory), Prasad Vegendla (Argonne National Laboratory)
Gas Coolant Channel Optimization for Transformational Challenge Reactor
Prashant K. Jain (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Casey J. Jesse (Idaho National Laboratory), Justin Weinmeister (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Preliminary Design and Stress Analysis of the Transformational Challenge Reactor Vessel
Subhasish Mohanty (Argonne National Laboratory), Benjamin R. Betzler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Brian J. Ade (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Prasad Vegendla (Argonne National Laboratory), Alberto Talamo (Argonne National Laboratory), Aurelien X. Bergeron (Argonne National Laboratory)
Transformational Challenge Reactor Accident Analysis
Jordan D. Rader (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Prashant K. Jain (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Aaron J. Wysocki (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Thermal-Hydraulic Analyses to Support TCR Optimization
Kurt A. Terrani (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Benjamin R. Betzler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Rick Archibald (ORNL), Briana D. Hiscox (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Vladimir Sobes (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Emilian Popov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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