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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Anita Poore (SRNL)
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (American Nuclear Society)
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Advanced isotope separation technology for fusion fuel
X. Steve Xiao (SRNL)
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Integrated tritium breeding experiment for liquid immersion blanket concept
Kevin B. Woller (MIT), Caroline Sorensen (MIT), Ethan E. Peterson (MIT), Sara E. Ferry (MIT), Dennis G. Whyte (MIT)
Preliminary estimate of tritium migration for a A-FNS lithium target system
Kentaro Ochiai, Atsushi Kasugai, Masayuki Ohta (Kansai University, Japan), Makoto Oyaidzu (QST)
Uranium beds design parameters for tritium plants supporting fusion reactors
Joseph Dumont (LANL), William Kubic (LANL), Scott Willms, W. Kirk Hollis, David Doguel, Victoria Hypes (LANL)
Permeation rate of deuterium and tritium through iron-chromium-aluminum alloys
Matthew Sharpe (Rochester)
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