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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Nano to begin drilling next week in Illinois
It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 1
Session Chair:
Timothy M. Crook
Alternate Chair:
T.J. Morton (INL)
Session Organizer:
William N. Mann
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Investigations of Advanced Measurement Methods for High-Temperature Heat-Pipe Experiments
1:00–1:20PM MST
Sunming Qin (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Philippe Bardet (George Washington Univ.)
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Development of Non-Nuclear Microreactor Experimental Capability
1:20–1:40PM MST
Terry Morton (INL), Jeremy Hartvigsen (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
Incorporation of Historical Information into the Advanced Reactor Design Process: A Case Study on the Development of a Molten Salt Sampling System
1:40–2:00PM MST
Megan Harkema (Vanderbilt Univ.), Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Paul Marotta (Vanderbilt Univ.), Andrew Sowder (EPRI)
Overview and Review of the Plugging Problem in Molten Salt Reactors
2:00–2:20PM MST
Terry Price (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Texas, Austin)
Progress of Nuclear Design and Analysis of the Fast Modular Reactor
2:20–2:40PM MST
Darrin Leer (General Atomics), Matthew Virgen (General Atomics), Steve Ruther (General Atomics), Jonathan Lowe (General Atomics), Oscar Gutierrez (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics)
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