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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Walter Guttenfelder (PPPL)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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W7-X and the Stellarator Path to Fusion
Thomas S. Pedersen (Max Planck Inst. for Plasma Physics)
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Final Design of the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment
Juergen Rapp (ORNL), Arnold Lumsdaine (ORNL), Adam M. Aaron (ORNL), Theodore M. Biewer (ORNL), Tim Bigelow (ORNL), Boyd Ted (ORNL), John Caughman (ORNL), Douglas Curry (ORNL), Robert C. Duckworth (ORNL), Richard Goulding (ORNL), Michael Kaufman (ORNL), Cornwall Lau (ORNL)
From 25 Years of Fusion at Z Onward to the Next Generation of Pulsed Power
Daniel B. Sinars (Sandia)
Design of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) Tritium Fuel Cycle
Mohamad Abdallah (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)), Iryna Bennett (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA))
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