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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
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 FED
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|Marriott 4
Session Chair:
Lauren M. Garrison (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
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Integrated Fusion Neutronics Workflow for MCNP, OpenMC, and Shift
10:00–10:20AM EDT
J.W. Bae (ORNL), K. Borowiec (ORNL), A. Sircar (ORNL), V. Badalassi (ORNL)
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Searching the Plasma Geometry and Configuration Spaces for Feasible Tokamak Design Point
10:20–10:40AM EDT
Ehab Hassan (ORNL), C.E. Kessel (ORNL), J.M. Park (ORNL), P.B. Snyder (ORNL), C.S. Collins (ORNL)
Validation and Verification of a RELAP5-3D Model of the Lobo Lead Loop
10:40–11:00AM EDT
Jonathan L. Barthle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Shielding Design of SPARC Diagnostic Ports: Practical Lessons
11:00–11:20AM EDT
Ian R. Miner (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Megan Wart (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Ryanne Kennedy (MPR Assoc.)
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