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May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DOE considers recycling Paducah’s contaminated nickel
The Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Paducah Project Office is weighing options on reprocessing approximately 9,700 tons of contaminated nickel being stored at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
Alternate Chair:
Session Organizer:
Jean C. Ragusa (TAMU)
Student Assistant:
Michael Seneca
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Considerations for NMA of Molten Salt Reactors
3:10–3:30PM EST
Nathan Shoman (Sandia), Michael Higgins (Sandia)
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Molten Salt Reactor Source Term Methodology
3:30–3:50PM EST
Sarah E. Creasman (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), T. Jay Harrison (ORNL), Lawrence H. Heilbronn (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Preliminary Neutronics Modeling of a Molten Salt iso-Breeder Reactor
3:50–4:10PM EST
C. Erika Moss (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Ondřej Chvála (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Harrison Reisinger (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Alexander M. Wheeler (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Coupled Multiphysics Simulations of Molten Salt Reactors Subjected to Earthquakes
4:10–4:30PM EST
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Kyung Tae Kim (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Som Dhulipala (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL)
Parametric Analysis of Salt-Driven MSR Design Domains
4:30–4:50PM EST
Dahvien V. Dean (Texas A&M Univ.), Jonathan Scherr (Texas A&M Univ.), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.)
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