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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|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Franciscan B
Session Chair:
Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Eva E. Davidson
Session Organizer:
Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
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Towards 2D Reference Deterministic Calculations in Support of Industrial Model Verification and Advanced Reflector Modeling Setup
10:15–10:35AM PDT
F. Inzirillo (Politecnico di Milano), A. Brighenti (Framatome), A. Cammi (Politecnico di Milano), L. Graziano (Framatome), A. Hebert (Polytechnique Montréal), G. Marleau (Polytechnique Montréal), S. Santandrea (CEA), B. Vezzoni (Framatome)
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New Thermal and Leakage Synthetic Algorithms Applied to Best Estimate Schemes in Lattice Calculations
10:35–10:55AM PDT
A. Brighenti (Framatome), S. Santandrea (CEA), L. Graziano (Framatome), B. Vezzoni (Framatome)
Enhancing PWR Monte Carlo Simulations with GREAPMC: A GPU-Accelerated Approach
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Muhammad Rizwan Ali (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Murat Serdar Aygul (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Enrichment Interpolation for High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Macroscopic Cross Section for Polaris/PARCS
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Junsu Kang (Univ. Michigan), Andrew M. Ward (Univ. Michigan), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Thomas J. Downar (Univ. Michigan)
Core Physics Characteristics of Extended Enrichment and Higher Burnup Boiling Water Reactor Fuel
11:35–11:55AM PDT
Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Riley Cumberland (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
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