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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
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Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, June 14, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Dimitrios Cokinos (BNL)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (ANS)
This is a standing RPD session with papers on all general reactor physics topics of contemporary interest.
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Liquid-fueled Molten Salt Reactor Depletion Modeling
Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL)
Paper
Area Method Physical Interpretation, Modelling, and Intrinsic Bias
A. Talamo (ANL), Y. Gohar (ANL)
Development and Test of a Novel Neutronic Verification Scheme for Molten Salt Reactors
C. Demazière (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), A. Mylonakis (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), P. Vinai (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
Studies on Enhanced Spatial Control with Low Enriched Uranium in Plate-Type Fuels
Hailey M. Green (ORNL), Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL), Andrew T. Nelson (ORNL)
Examination of the Reactivity Limitations and Burnable Poison Loading Requirements for the OPEN100 Core Concept
Andrew Hummel (Kennesaw State Univ.), Joshua Tolbert (Energy Impact Center), Michael Beckert (Energy Impact Center)
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