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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 THD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine E
Session Chair:
Shanbin Shi (RPI)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Ferry Roelofs (NRG)
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Integration of a Clad Damage Propagation Model into PRONGHORN-SC for Fast Reactors
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Aydin Karahan (ANL)
Paper
Investigation of Core Inlet Flow Distribution for the Westinghouse Lead Fast Reactor
1:20–1:40PM PDT
E. Tatli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), T. Loebig (Westinghouse Electric Co.), C. Stansbury (Westinghouse Electric Co.), P. Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Simulating Radionuclide Retention Experiment in Liquid Sodium Pools Using MELCOR Code
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Gabriel Dengler-Jeanblanc (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Benjamin Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Towards a 3D Multi-Physics Model of MSRE
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Ferry Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), Victor Habiyaremye (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), Akshat Mathur (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), Heleen Uitslag-Doolaard (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group)
Neutronics and Thermal Hydraulics Analysis of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Casey Emler (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Saya Lee (Penn State), William Walters (Penn State)
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