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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|2:35–4:00PM EST |Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Erin Wehlage (Studsvik Scandpower)
Alternate Chair:
Tim Crook (MCR Performance Solutions)
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
Student Assistant:
Matthew Hageman
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Transient Characterization in High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors Using Deep Neural Networks
2:40–3:00PM EST
Andy Rivas (NC State Univ.), G. K. Delipei (NC State Univ.), Ian Davis (X-Energy), Yvotte Brits (X-Energy), Jason Hou (NC State Univ.)
Paper
Removing Safeguards and Security Roadblocks for Advanced Reactors
3:00–3:20PM EST
Ben Cipiti (Sandia), Alison Hahn (U.S. DOE)
Improving Microreactor Competitiveness Using an Economics-by-Design Approach
3:20–3:40PM EST
Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Andrew Foss (INL), Yasir Arafat (INL), Brent Dixon (INL)
NERTHUS MSR Dynamic Model
3:40–4:00PM EST
Nicholas Dunkle (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), Visura Pathirana (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville)
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