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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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UMass Lowell and MIT back fission and fusion future for Massachusetts
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey wants to accelerate the state’s leadership in both fission and fusion, and earlier this month asked the University of Massachusetts–Lowell to develop road maps to support research, manufacturing, and deployment of advanced nuclear and fusion energy in the state to “affordably, reliably, and sustainably” meet growing electricity demand in New England.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Friday, December 3, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
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Alternate Chair:
Igor Bolotnov (NC State Univ.)
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Surface Roughness Modeling for Transformational Challenge Reactor Fuel Form
10:05–10:25AM EST
Justin Weinmeister (ORNL)
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System-Level Simulation of the PBMR-400 Core with SAM
10:25–10:45AM EST
Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Thanh Hua (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
CFD Investigation of Thermal Behavior of NBSR Thermal Shield Model Under Various Cooling Conditions
10:45–11:05AM EST
Manikanta Grandhi (Texas A&M Univ.-Kingsville), Xue Yang (Texas A&M Univ.-Kingsville)
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