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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS announces 2026 Presidential Citations
One of the privileges of being president of the American Nuclear Society is awarding Presidential Citations to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding effort in some manner for the benefit of ANS or the nuclear community at large. Citations are conferred twice each year, at the Annual and Winter Meetings.
ANS President Hash Hashemian has named this season’s recipients, who will receive recognition at the upcoming 2025 Winter Conference & Expo in Washington, D.C.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, November 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 7
Session Chair:
Jason Hou (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Open-Source Computational Model of a Molten Chloride Fast Reactor
3:15–3:35PM MST
Harrison Reisinger (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nathaniel Howard (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Maxwell Wagner (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Peyton Mann (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Molten Salt Reactor Modeling in SCALE: Effects of Multigroup Libraries on Depletion Analysis
3:35–3:55PM MST
Christopher E. Bayne (Georgia Tech), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Tech)
MSR Reactivity, Power, and Inventory Simulations with SCALE
3:55–4:15PM MST
Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Austin Lo (ORNL), Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Parametric Study of the Thorium-Based Molten Salt Reactor Core
4:15–4:35PM MST
Seda Yilmaz Kaygisiz (Purdue), Shripad Revankar (Purdue)
MSRE Transient Benchmark Development and Evaluation: NEUP Project Updates
4:35–4:55PM MST
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Mohamed Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), Benjamin Betzler (ORNL), Tingzhou Fei (ANL), Kurt Harris (Flibe Energy)
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