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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.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, June 13, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|Kentucky
Session Chair:
Benjamin R. Betzler
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
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Nuclear Data Uncertainty Quantification of High Flux Isotope Reactor Low-Enriched Uranium Design
3:15–3:35PM EDT
D. Hartanto (ORNL), J.W. Bae (ORNL), B.R. Betzler (ORNL), J.R. Burns (ORNL), D. Chandler (ORNL), C. Sizemore (ORNL)
Paper
Equilibrium Cycle Modeling of a Generic mHTGR Similar to the Xe-100
3:35–3:55PM EDT
Annie Berens (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Benchmark Calculations for Peach Bottom Unit 2 and Hatch Unit 1 Using the SCALE-6.3.0/Polaris-PARCS v3.4.2 Code Package
3:55–4:15PM EDT
Kang Seog Kim (ORNL), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Andrew M. Ward (Univ. Michigan), Matthew A. Jessee (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Benchmark Calculations for BEAVRS and Watt Bar Unit 1 Using the SCALE-6.3.0/Polaris-PARCS v3.4.2 Code Package
4:15–4:35PM EDT
Improvement of SCALE Infrastructure on Microsoft Windows
4:35–4:55PM EDT
Shane W.D. Hart (ORNL), Seth R. Johnson (ORNL), Robert A. Lefebvre (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
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