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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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State legislation: Illinois bill aims to lift state’s remaining nuclear moratorium
A bill that would fully repeal the state’s entire moratorium on new nuclear projects survived a key deadline in the Illinois General Assembly last week.
To stay afloat in the spring legislative session, bills needed to be assigned to committee by March 21, and state Sen. Sue Rezin’s Senate Bill 1527 now sits with the Senate’s Energy and Public Utilities committee for review.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Monday, June 17, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine C
Session Chair:
Gale Hauck (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Rosemary Yeremian (Advanced Nuclear Advisors)
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
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Testing Gears and Bearings for Fuel Handling Machines in Sodium Fast Reactors
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Alex Grannan (ANL), Edward Kent (ANL), Sasan Bakhtiari (ANL), Thomas Elmer (ANL), H.T. Chien (ANL), Chris Grandy (ANL)
Paper
Operation and Security Considerations for Heat Pipe Cooled Microreactors
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Ilyas Yilgor (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Scott Ferrara (INL)
Study of Parametric Fluctuations in Integral Reactor Configuration
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Hui-Yu Hsieh (TAMU), Pavel Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Feasibility of Remote Monitoring of Microreactors Using Satellites and Leveraging Transfer Learning and Pre-trained Models
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Hui-Yu Hsieh (TAMU), Thabit Abuqudaira (TAMU), Pavel Tsvetkov (TAMU), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
100-30-100 Load Following Concept for a Typical PWR System with Increased Enrichment Fuel
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Isabelle O. Lindsay (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie B. Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Mutual Gains from Diablo Canyon Extended Operations: Exploring the Nexus Between State Energy Needs, Federal Interests, the Commercial Nuclear Industry, and a Utility
4:55–5:05PM PDT
Tyson Smith (Pacific Gas and Electric Co.)
Recent Advances in General Atomics Fast Modular Reactor Conceptual Design
5:05–5:15PM PDT
Hangbok Choi (General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems), John Bolin (General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems)
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