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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 RPD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|8:00–9:45AM MST|Bougainvillea
Session Chair:
Eva E. Davidson (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Cenk Guler (Westinghouse)
Session Organizer:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Xe-100 200 MWth MCNP Reactor Core and RCCS Modeling and Analysis
8:00–8:20AM MST
Jinan Yang (X-energy), Patrick Robinson (X-energy), Gokhan Yesilyurt (X-energy), Sonat Sen (X-energy), Shawn MacIntosh (X-energy), Herman van Antwerpen (X-energy)
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Uncertainty Quantification of Pebble's Discharge Burnup and Isotopic Inventory Using SCALE
8:20–8:40AM MST
Donny Hartanto (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL), Steve Skutnik (ORNL), Philip Gibbs (ORNL), Donald N. Kovacic (ORNL)
Innovative Burnable Poison Pins for Longer Cycle Length Small PWR Core
8:40–9:00AM MST
Aiman Dandi (Kyung Hee Univ.), Myung Hyun Kim (Kyung Hee Univ.)
Determination of an Initial Critical Fuel Height for a Pebble-Bed Reactor
9:00–9:20AM MST
Ryan Stewart (INL), David A. Reger (Penn State), Paolo Balestra (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL)
Concept of Lead-Cooled Rotational Fuel-Shuffling Breed-and-Burn Fast Reactor
9:20–9:40AM MST
Odmaa Sambuu (Nat'l Univ. Mongolia), Van Khanh Hoang (Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute), Jun Nishiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Toru Obara (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
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