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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Nano Nuclear to receive $6.8 million award from Illinois
New York City–based advanced nuclear technology developer Nano Nuclear and the Office of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced on Tuesday that Nano will receive $6.8 million in state funding to establish its new manufacturing and research and development facility in Illinois.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Lincoln East
Session Chair:
Steve Skutnik (ORNL)
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Radiochemical Transport Analysis to Identify Potential Safeguards Approaches for MSRs
10:00–10:20AM EST
Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), Scott Richards (ANL), Luke Seifert (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sean Martinson (ANL), Zachery S. Beauvais (ANL)
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Development and Assessment of Sensors for Solid Phase Monitoring in Molten Salts
10:20–10:40AM EST
Nora A. Shaheen (ANL), Laura E. Maggos (ANL), Jonas E. Siegel (ANL), Nathaniel C. Hoyt (ANL)
Design and Optimization of an Aerosol Optical Cell for Spectroscopy Analysis for Molten Salt Reactor Safeguards
10:40–11:00AM EST
Juan Avila (Florida Int'l Univ.), Ammon Williams (INL), Ruchi Gakhar (INL), Qiufeng Yang (INL)
Chemometric Analysis for On-Line Monitoring of Complex Molten Salt Chemistry
11:00–11:20AM EST
Shirmir D. Branch (PNNL), Heather M. Felmy (PNNL), Adan S. Medina (PNNL), Samuel A. Bryan (PNNL), Amanda M. Lines (PNNL)
Online Molten Salt Reactor Sampling Approach Using Laser and Optical Spectroscopy Techniques in Molten Salt Aerosol
11:20–11:40AM EST
Ammon Williams (INL), Ruchi Gakhar (INL), Qiufeng Yang (INL), Juan Avila (Florida Int'l Univ.), Igor Jovanovic (Univ. Michigan), Milos Burger (Univ. Michigan), Londrea Garrett (Univ. Michigan)
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