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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Industry Update—October 2025
Here is a recap of recent industry happenings:
New international partnership to speed Xe-100 SMR deployment
X-energy, Amazon, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, and Doosan Enerbility have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of X-energy’s Xe-100 small modular reactors and TRISO fuel in the United States to meet the power demands from data centers and AI. The partners will collaborate in reactor engineering design, supply-chain development, construction planning, investment strategies, long-term operations, and global opportunities for joint AI-nuclear deployment. The companies also plan to jointly mobilize as much as $50 billion in public and private investment to support advanced nuclear energy in the U.S.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 8
Session Chair:
Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Validation of SNAP8 Criticality Configuration Experiments Using SERPENT
3:15–3:35PM MST
Samuel Garcia (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Isaac E. Naupa Aguirre (Georgia Tech), Anthony Boyd (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Oliver Paleen (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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Design and Optimization of the Radiation Shadow Shield for a 3 MW Space Reactor
3:35–3:55PM MST
Luay M. Alawneh (TAMU), Faisal Aldebie (TAMU), Yassin Hassan (TAMU), Harold G. "Sonny" White (Limitless Space Institute)
Micro-SMR LEU+ Very Long-Lived Once-Through No-Onsite Refueling Cycle Performance Assessment
3:55–4:15PM MST
Gray Chang (JFoster & Assoc.), John Bess (JFoster & Assoc.), Mie Hiruta (JFoster & Assoc.), Julie Foster (JFoster & Assoc.)
Selected Results from Full-Core Hydrogen Redistribution Asymptotic Analysis in YH-Moderated Heat-Pipe Cooled Microreactor
4:15–4:35PM MST
Stefano Terlizzi (INL), Vincent M. Laboure (INL), Mark D. DeHart (INL)
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