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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Report spotlights energy sector’s growing nuclear investment
As part of a broader series on the future of global energy markets, S&P Global has released a report on examining the growing interest in nuclear power as the solution to many of the problems the energy sector faces.
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Technical Session|Advanced Reactor Design and Analysis - Circulating-Fuel Reactors
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|8:00–9:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley B
Session Chair:
Steven P. Hamilton
Alternate Chair:
Paul K. Romano
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A Computationally Tractable Model for Spatially Resolved Nuclide Concentrations in Flowing Fuel Molten Salt Reactors
8:00–8:25AM MDT
Luke D. Seifert (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), Kathryn Huff (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Scott Richards (ANL), Madicken Munk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Paper
Role of Recirculation in Reactivity Loss in Circulating-Fuel Reactors
8:25–8:50AM MDT
Lubomir Bures (Seaborg Technologies)
Low Resolution Simulation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Molten Salt Irradiation Flow Loop
8:50–9:15AM MDT
Seth D. Dayawansa (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin), David M. Carpenter (MIT), Charles W. Forsberg (MIT)
Modeling Continuous Online Refueling with SCALE 6.3.1 and Serpent-2 in the EIRENE Novel Molten Salt Reactor Design
9:15–9:40AM MDT
Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Texas, Austin), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), John P. Carter (INL)
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