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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC hosting open house this week to discuss Vogtle plant performance
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding an in-person open house on Thursday, May 15, to discuss the 2024 safety performance of the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fuel Materials and Chemistry
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Richard Williamson (INL)
Alternate Chair:
David Andersson (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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Core Wide PCI Screening Analysis
Joseph Y.R. Rashid (Structural Integrity Associates, Inc.), Wenfeng Liu (Structural Integrity Associates, Inc.)
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The Thermo-Mechanical Fracture of Chromium Film-Zirconium Substrates
Tamir Hasan (North Carolina State University), Mohammed Zikry (North Carolina State University)
Kinetic model of incipient hydride formation in Zr clad under dynamic oxide growth conditions
Qianran Yu (University of California Los Angeles), Michael Reyes (University of California Los Angeles), Nachiket Shah (University of California Los Angeles), Jaime Marian (University of California Los Angeles)
Creep Wear and Gap Modeling for GTRF
Wei Lu (University of Michigan), Michael Thouless (University of Michigan)
3D Modeling of Missing Pellet Surface Defects with BISON
Benjamin Spencer (Idaho National Laboratory), Richard L. Williamson (Idaho National Laboratory), D. S. Stafford (Southwestern Scientific Ltd. Co.), Stephen R. Novascone (Idaho National Laboratory), Jason Hales (Idaho National Laboratory), Giovanni Pastore (University of Tennessee)
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