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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|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
David Senor (PNNL)
Staff Producer:
David Strutz (American Nuclear Society)
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Compatibility of FeCrAlMo alloy in thermally convective eutectic PbLi up to 700 C
Jiheon Jun (ORNL), Bruce Pint, Michael Lance, Kinga Unocic
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Additive manufacturing for fusion plasma facing components
Morris Wong, Ram Devanathan, Charles Henager, Christopher Spadaccini, Robert Kolasinski, Richard Nygren, Ying Yang, Peeyush Nandwana, Michael Kirka, John Echols, Betsy Ellis, Niyanth Sridharan, Yutai Katoh (ORNL)
Modeling Magnetic Material using Vector Potential Based Elements in ANSYS
Peter Titus, Han Zhang, Ph.D (PPPL)
Do interfacial oxides affect the late-stage oxidation kinetics in tungsten?
Yevhen Zayachuk (UKAEA), Viacheslav Kuksenko (UKAEA), Eric Prestat (University of Manchester), Stephen E Donnelly (University of Huddersfield), Graeme Greaves (University of Huddersfield), George Fulton (UKAEA), Joven JH Lim (UKAEA), Artem Lunev (UKAEA)
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