Call for Papers

2025 ANS Annual Conference

June 15–18, 2025  |  Chicago, IL  |  Chicago Marriott Downtown

EXECUTIVE CHAIRS

Technical Program Chair

Elia Merzari (Penn State)

Assistant Program Chairs

Dillon Shaver (ANL)

Emily Shemon (ANL)

Vaibhav Sinha (Ohio State)

ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS DEADLINE

SUBMISSION OF SUMMARIES AND ABSTRACTS: FEBRUARY 7, 2025

AUTHOR NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: FEBRUARY 28, 2025

REVISED SUMMARIES AND ABSTRACTS DUE: MARCH 17, 2025

GUIDELINES FOR SUMMARIES AND ABSTRACTS

Please submit summaries or abstracts describing work that is new, significant, and relevant to the nuclear field. Summaries and abstracts are presented orally at the conference, and presenters are expected to register for the conference. Non–U.S. attendees requesting a visa invitation letter: registrar@ans.org.


PRESENTATION OPTIONS

There are two options for submittal, using the ANS Electronic Paper Submission and Review (EPSR) portal:

1) Summary/Standard-Length Presentation Option

Submit a summary. If accepted, you will provide a standard-length presentation at the conference. Summaries should be a maximum of four (4) pages and a minimum of one (1) page; references, tables, figures, and acknowledgements are counted as pages.

Content

  1. Introduction: State the purpose of the work.
  2. Description of the actual work: Must be new and significant.
  3. Results: Discuss their significance.
  4. References: If any, must be closely related published works. Minimize the number of references.
  5. Do not present a bibliographical listing.
  6. If a disclaimer is required (e.g., related to the author’s employer), it is the author’s responsibility to include the disclaimer in the summary as either an end-of-summary note (preferred) or footnote. Please ensure such footnotes do not interfere with the bottom margin, and do not format disclaimers as headers or footers.


2) Abstract/Lightning Talk Option

Submit a 1-page abstract only. If accepted, you will provide a brief Lightning Talk at the conference. For this option, you will not submit a summary later. Submit an abstract for a Lightning Talk to one of the Lightning Talk sessions listed on p. 2; make sure you submit to a session that has “Lightning Talk” in the session title.


FORMATTING AND PUBLISHING

  1. Use the provided templates for summaries and abstracts.
  2. Summaries and abstracts must be submitted as Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. After you save your document as a PDF, verify that it still meets the page-length requirements.
  3. Limit the title to ten words if possible. Limit listing of authors to three or fewer if possible.
  4. Do not use all capital letters for the title or any part of any authors’ names. For the title of the abstract or summary, Capitalize the First Letter of Major Words. Author names should be First Name or Initial(s) followed by Last Name.
  5. The names of all authors should be entered into the Authors page in the EPSR. List the authors in the same order in which their names appear on the abstract or summary. The conference program is derived from the information entered into the EPSR, not from the summary or abstract itself.
  6. In the EPSR, authors’ affiliations should match the affiliation provided on the summary or abstract itself. If an author has multiple affiliations, enter the ONE that should be included in the program and in the conference TRANSACTIONS, assuming the summary or abstract is accepted.
  7. Do not use page numbers, headers, or footers. Do not save your PDF as “read only.”
  8. Keep the bottom margin clear so there is space for the ANS-applied footer and page number.
  9. All accepted and presented abstracts and summaries will be included in the conference’s TRANSACTIONS, which will publish digitally shortly after the conference concludes.
  10. Full papers based on summaries or abstracts may be published elsewhere, but the summaries and abstracts become the property of ANS. Under no circumstances should a summary or abstract be published in any other publication before presentation at the ANSconference. It is the author’s responsibility to protect classified, export-controlled,or proprietary information.

SESSION TITLES BY DIVISION (P) = Panel

1. ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS (AAD)

1a. Accelerator Applications: General

1b. Accelerator Applications: Lightning Talks

2. AEROSPACE NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (ANSTD)

2a. Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology: General

2b. Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology: Lightning Talks

3. DECOMMISSIONING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (DESD)

3a. Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences: General

3b. Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences: Lightning Talks

4. EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (ETWDD)

4a. Innovations in Nuclear Curricula

4b. Training, Human Performance, and Workforce Development

4c. Cutting-Edge Techniques in Education, Training, and Distance Education

4d. Modernizing Training in the Nuclear Power Industry (P)

4e. Nuclear Energy Sector - Academic Roadmap (P)

4f.` Global Synergy: Forging International Partnerships in Nuclear Engineering Education, Training and Workforce Development (P)

4g. Education, Training, and Workforce Development: General

4h. Education, Training, and Workforce Development: Lightning Talks

5. FUEL CYCLE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT (FCWMD)

5a. Progress in Salt Reactors: Current Status and Key Considerations for Advancement (P)

5b. Progress Towards a Domestic Repository Program (P)

5c. Used Fuel, What is it Good For? (P)

5d. Update on the International SNF Management Efforts (P)

5e. Technical Aspects of HALEU Production (P)

5f. Actinide Science in Nuclear Energy Through the Glenn T. Seaborg Institutes (P)

5g. Advances in Consent-Based Siting

5h. Scientific and Technical Advances in SNF Storage and Transportation

5i. Innovative Methods in SNF Disposal Research and Development

5j. Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Applications of Automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML)

5k. Advances in the Application of Digital Twins in the Fuel Cycle and Waste Management

5l. Advances in Fuel Recycle

5m. Molten Salt Fuel Chemistry

5n. University Research in Fuel Cycle and Waste Management

5o. Fuel Cycle and Waste Management: General

5p. Fuel Cycle and Waste Management: Lightning Talks

6. FUSION ENERGY (FED)

6a. Fusion Materials

6b. Blanket and Fuel Cycle

6c. Neutronics and Safety

6d. Advances in Fusion Technology

6e. Fusion Modeling and Simulation

6f. Careers in Fusion (P)

6g. Fusion Thermal Hydraulics

6h. Fusion Energy: Lightning Talks

7. HUMAN FACTORS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND CONTROLS (HFICD)

See embedded topical meeting Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT) Abstracts are due Oct. 25, 2024

8. ISOTOPES AND RADIATION (IRD)

8a. Advances in Research Reactors and Isotope Production with High-Density LEU Fuel

8b. Isotopes and Radiation: General

8c. Isotopes and Radiation: Lightning Talks

9. MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MSTD)

9a. Nuclear Fuels

9b. Accident Tolerant Fuels

9c. Fast Reactor Fuels

9d. Fuels and Materials for Molten Salt Reactors

9e. Irradiation Experiments for Nuclear Materials and Fuels Research

9f. Advanced/Additive Manufacturing

9g. Environmental Degradation of Materials

9h. AI and Machine Learning Applications in Nuclear Materials

9i. Nuclear Science User Facilities

9j. Actinide Science

9k. High Entropy Alloys and Ceramics

9l. Materials Science and Technology: Lightning Talks

10. MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION (MCD)

10a. Current Issues in Computational Methods – Roundtable (P)

10b. Transport Methods

10c. Computational Methods and Mathematical Modeling

10d. Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis, and Machine Learning

10e. Mathematics and Computation: Lightning Talks

11. NUCLEAR CRITICALITY SAFETY (NCSD)

11a. Data, Analysis, and Operations in Nuclear Criticality Safety

11b. Practical Uses of Uncertainty Tools in NCS

11c. Sharing of Good Industry Practices and/or Lessons Learned in NCS (P)

11d. Updates/Revisions to Series 8 Standards (P)

11e. Knowledge Transfer to Younger NCS Staff (P)

11f. ANS 8 Standards Forum (P)

11g. Nuclear Criticality Safety: Lightning Talks

12. NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS SAFETY (NISD)

12a. Research and Test Reactor Safety

12b. Fusion Systems Safety: Challenges, Initial Efforts and Path Forward (P)

12c. Nuclear Installations Safety: General

12d. Nuclear Installations Safety: Lightning Talks

Also see embedded topical meeting 19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025). Abstracts are due Oct. 14, 2024

13. NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION POLICY (NNPD)

13a. Science, Technology, and Policy Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation

13b. Export Controls and Nuclear Nonproliferation

13c. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy: Lightning Talks

14. OPERATIONS AND POWER (OPD)

14a. Advanced Nuclear Reactors and Power Systems

14b. Energy Storage Integration with Nuclear Power Plants

14c. Hybrid and Integrated Energy Systems

14d. Nuclear Energy Markets, Financing, and Economics

14e. Operations and Power: General

14f. Operations and Power: Lightning Talks

15. RADIATION PROTECTION AND SHIELDING (RPSD)

15a. Computational Tools for Radiation Protection and Shielding

15b. Advanced Computational Methods for Activation Analysis, Shielding, and Post-Shutdown Assessments

15c. Radiation Protection and Shielding: General

15d. Radiation Protection and Shielding: Lightning Talks

16. REACTOR PHYSICS (RPD)

16a. Reactor Analysis Methods

16b. Reactor Physics Design, Validation and Operational Experience

16c. Reactor Physics of Advanced Reactors

16d. Advances in Reactor Design Methods

16e. Reactor Physics of Micro Reactors for Terrestrial and Space Applications

16f. Early Career Reactor Physicist Award (P)

16g. MARVEL Project: Lessons Learned Towards Demonstration

16h. Reactor Physics: General

16i. Reactor Physics: Lightning Talks

17. ROBOTICS AND REMOTE SYSTEMS (RRSD)

17a. Effective Nuclear Industry Collaborations in the Digital Age (P)

17b. Robotics and Remote Systems: Lightning Talks

18. THERMAL HYDRAULICS (THD)

18a. Advanced Reactor Thermal Hydraulics

18b. Experimental Thermal Hydraulics

18c. Computational Thermal Hydraulics

18d. Computational Multiphase Flow

18e. Experimental Multiphase Flow

18f. AI/ML Applications in Thermal Hydraulics

18g. Thermal Hydraulic Challenges in Multiphysics Simulations

18h. Thermal Hydraulic Challenges and Opportunities in Microreactors

18i. Thermal Hydraulics Challenges and Opportunities for LWR Initiatives (P)

18j. Thermal Hydraulic Testing for Advanced Reactors (P)

18k. Non-Traditional Uses of Nuclear Energy (P)

18l. Thermal Hydraulic Education: Opportunities with AI (P)

18m. Thermal Hydraulics: General

18n. Thermal Hydraulics: Lightning Talks

TECHNICAL DIVISION LEADERSHIP

ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS (AAD)

Lin Shao, lshao@tamu.edu

AEROSPACE NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (ANSTD)

Jeffrey King, jking@tntech.edu

DECOMMISSIONING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (DESD)

Dustin Miller, DMiller@TerranearPMC.com

Jim Byrne, jbyrne4424@comcast.net

EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (ETWDD)

Kyle Hartig, hartig@mse.ufl.edu

FUEL CYCLE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT (FCWMD)

Leah Squires, Leah.Squires@inl.gov

FUSION ENERGY (FED)

Tommy Fuerst, Thomas.Fuerst@inl.gov

Paul Humrickhouse, humrickhoupw@ornl.gov

Lauren Garrison, lgarrison@cfs.energy

HUMAN FACTORS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND CONTROLS (HFICD)

Vivek Agarwal, vivek.agarwal@inl.gov

ISOTOPES AND RADIATION (IRD)

Igor Jovanovic, ijov@umich.edu

Kenan Unlu, K-unlu@psu.edu

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MSTD)

Jake Quincey, quinceyj@oregonstate.edu

Kenneth Geelhood, Kenneth.Geelhood@pnnl.gov

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION (MCD)

Koroush Shirvan, kshirvan@mit.edu

Sebastian Schunert, s.schunert@gmail.com

NUCLEAR CRITICALITY SAFETY (NCSD)

Ben Martin

Amy Van Der Vyver,

amy.vandervyver@sellafieldsites.com

NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS SAFETY (NISD)

Yunfei Zhao, yzhao111@umd.edu

Mihai A. Diaconeasa, madiacon@ncsu.edu

NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION POLICY (NNPD)

Tom Hanlon, hanlonte@gmail.com

Angela Di Fulvio, difulvio@illinois.edu

Shikha Prasad, shikhapr@gmail.com

OPERATIONS AND POWER (OPD)

W. Neal Mann, wmann@anl.gov

RADIATION PROTECTION AND SHIELDING (RPSD)

Irina Popova, popovai@ornl.gov

Tucker McClanahan, mcclanahantc@ornl.gov

REACTOR PHYSICS (RPD)

Zeyun Wu, zwu@vcu.edu

ROBOTICS AND REMOTE SYSTEMS (RRSD)

Adam Carroll, carrollaj@ornl.gov

Young Park, ypark@anl.gov

THERMAL HYDRAULICS (THD)

Dillon Shaver, dshaver@anl.gov

Izabela Gutowska,

izabela.gutowska@oregonstate.edu

YOUNG MEMBERS GROUP (YMG)

Evan Gonzalez, gonzalez121@llnl.gov

Pierre-Clement Simon,

PierreClement.Simon@inl.gov

SUBMIT A PAPER OR ABSTRACT

https://epsr.ans.org/meeting/?m=377

PROGRAM SPECIALIST

Janet Davis
708-579-8253
jdavis@ans.org