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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Amazon provides update on its Washington project with X-energy
A year ago this month, Amazon led a $500 million investment in X-energy, alongside Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the University of Michigan, and other investors. In addition to that financing, Amazon pledged to support the development of an initial four-unit, 320-MW project with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, November 13, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
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Alternate Chair:
Nathan J. Roskoff
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Analysis of Heavy Water Reactor Reactivity Device with a Dyadic Assembly Monte Carlo Model
1:00–1:20PM EST
Frederick N. Gleicher (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Shaw Wen (INL), Samuel Bays (INL), Gustavo Reyes (INL)
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The Method of Weight Adjustment for Negative Cross Sections Sampling in Monte Carlo
1:20–1:40PM EST
Zhaoyuan Liu (Qilu Univ. Technology), Jingang Liang (Tsinghua Univ.), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
Improvement of the SCALE-6.3/XSProc Pointwise Slowing-Down Capability with the Bound Thermal Scattering Data Including High Forward Peaks
1:40–2:00PM EST
Kang Seog Kim (ORNL), Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL), Chris Chapman (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Feasibility Study for Breakeven Molten Salt Fast Reactor Using the PWR Spent Nuclear Fuels
2:00–2:20PM EST
Eunhyug Lee (KAIST), Taesuk Oh (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Preliminary Analysis of iDTMC-Implemented Predictor-Corrector Quasi-Static Monte-Carlo Simulation
2:20–2:40PM EST
Tae-suk Oh (KAIST), Inyup Kim (KAIST), Eunhyug Lee (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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