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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, November 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 7
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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A Sensitivity Analysis for Utilizing Alternative Cladding Materials in APR1400
1:00–1:20PM MST
Nouf T. Alhattawi (Khalifa Univ. Science and Technology), Mohammad Alrwashdeh (Khalifa Univ. Science and Technology)
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Machine Learning Approach in Determining Reactor Physics of Subcritical Reactors
1:20–1:40PM MST
Ronald Daryll E. Gatchalian (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Preliminary Design of a Low Power, Natural Circulation Liquid Fuel Molten Salt Reactor for the Production of Radio-Isotopes
1:40–2:00PM MST
Tatiana Siaraferas (Univ. California, Berkeley), Stu Burgess (Univ. California, Berkeley), Mubasheer Chombakkadath (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yonk Mok Kim (Univ. California, Berkeley), Juhi Nandwani (Univ. California, Berkeley), Richy Rocha (Univ. California, Berkeley), Madeleine Waller (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Heavy-Water Reactor Progression Problems: NRX Neutronics Benchmark
2:00–2:20PM MST
Briana Hiscox (ORNL), Tarek Ghaddar (ORNL), Brian Ade (ORNL), Austin Lo (GenAlpha Nuclear Technologies)
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