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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators
Technical Session
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|4:20–5:45PM EST |Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Lin Shao
Session Organizer:
Eric J. Pitcher
Student Assistant:
Zach Deziel
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Demonstrated Performance of High Current Isotope Production Targetry at LANL
4:25–4:45PM EST
Ellen M. O'Brien (LANL), Christiaan E. Vermeulen (LANL), Eva R. Birnbaum (LANL), Eric R. Olivas (LANL), David A. Reass (LANL)
Paper
Neutronics Impacts of SNS Proton Power Upgrade
4:45–5:05PM EST
F. X. Gallmeier (ORNL), W. Lu (ORNL), I. Remec (ORNL), I. I. Popova (ORNL), K. Bekar (ORNL), B. W. Riemer (ORNL)
Reference
KIPT Target Cooling System Modeling and Analyses by ANSYS FLUENT
5:05–5:25PM EST
A. Talamo (ANL), Z. Zhong (ANL), Y. Gohar (ANL)
The Effect of P+ -Ion Exposure of Ohmic Contacts Mo/Si of Bipolar Transistor on the Grain Size of Mo Films
5:25–5:45PM EST
Yu. Snitovsky (JSC Integral), Ya. Solovyov (JSC Integral)
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