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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|Reactor Design and Analysis
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Franciscan A
Session Chair:
Germina Ilas
Alternate Chair:
David Chandler (ORNL)
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Implementation of a Novel ERANOS Procedure for the Adjoint Power Evaluation in Coupled Depletion Problems
3:30–3:50PM PDT
Matteo Stanzani (Univ. Bologna), Donato Maurizio Castelluccio (ENEA), Francesco Lodi (ENEA), Vincenzo Giuseppe Peluso (ENEA), Giacomo Grasso (ENEA), Marco Sumini (Univ. Bologna)
Paper
Reactivity Decrease by Assembling Fuel Assemblies in a Heavy Water-Cooled Reactor
3:50–4:10PM PDT
Tomoatsu Shinohara (Tokyo City Univ.), Naoyuki Takaki (Tokyo City Univ.)
Fuel Cycle Analysis of Wielenga Innovation Static Salt Reactor (WISSR)
4:10–4:30PM PDT
Puran Deng (Univ. Michigan), Won Sik Yang (Univ. Michigan), Thomas Wielenga (Wielenga Innovation Foundation)
Multiphysics Analysis of a Minor Actinide Burning Molten Salt Reactor
4:30–4:50PM PDT
J. Eickman (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Nyberg (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), U. Baker (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), B. Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Dynamics and Stability Analysis Study of a Thermal Molten Salt Reactor
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Thabit Abuqudaira (TAMU), Ümran Üzen (TAMU), Dahvien Dean (TAMU), Pavel Tsvetkov (TAMU), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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