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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
Thursday, June 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Jason Trelewicz (Stony Brook Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Lauren M. Garrison (ORNL)
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Nuclear Data Experiments for Fusion: Challenges, Successes, and Future Needs
Mark Gilbert (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)
Paper
Small Specimen Test Technique Development for Materials Qualification Using Fusion Neutron Source
Xiang Chen (ORNL), Mikhail A. Sokolov (ORNL), Takashi Nozawa (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Hiroyasu Tanigawa (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Yao Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Takuya Nagasaka (National Institute of Fusion Science), Jingjie Shen (National Institute for Fusion Science), Mario Walter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Emile Gaganidze (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Jarir Aktaa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Shuhei Nogami (Tohoku University), Mitsuru Ohata (Osaka Univ.), Marta Serrano (CIEMAT), Rebeca Hernández (CIEMAT), David Andres (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Henk Nolles (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Yiqiang Wang (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Yutai Katoh (ORNL), Sehila Maria Gonzalez de Vicente (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA))
Specimen Size Effects on Creep Properties of F82H Reduced-Activation Ferritic Steel
Takuya Nagasaka (National Institute of Fusion Science), Jingjie Shen (National Institute for Fusion Science), Masami Ando (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Taichiro Kato (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Takashi Nozawa (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Hiroyasu Tanigawa (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology)
Flexural Testing of Neutron Irradiated Tungsten Materials by Three-Point Bend
Nathan C. Reid (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Lauren M. Garrison (ORNL), Trevor Marchhart (Penn State), Jean Paul Allain (Penn State)
Influence of Fatigue Precracking and Specimen Size on the Master Curve Fracture Toughness Measurements of EUROFER97 and F82H Steels
Xiang Chen (ORNL), Marta Serrano (CIEMAT), Rebeca Hernández (CIEMAT), Mikhail A. Sokolov (ORNL)
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