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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
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan A
Session Chair:
Mehdi Asgari (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Joel Rhodes (Studsvik Scandpower)
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Loading Pattern Optimization for LWRs Using Monte Carlo Tree Search
1:30–1:50PM PDT
Rikuto Kasama (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.)
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Scalarized Multiobjective Fuel Loading Optimization of Extended-Cycle NuScale Power Module with Evolutionary Algorithms
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Thomas Jayasankar (Univ. Michigan), Dean Price (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
Learning Nuclear Fuel Management, Case Study: Design of a Two-Year Equilibrium Cycle of a BWRX-300-like Small Modular Reactor
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Arturo Jiménez-Facio (Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México), Juan-Luis Francois (Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México)
Stochastic Optimization to Find Reference Core Configuration for Refueling Simulations of Waste-Burning Stable Salt Reactor
2:30–2:50PM PDT
Seungug Jae (Univ. Michigan), Won Sik Yang (Univ. Michigan), Thanh Hua (ANL), Yan Cao (ANL), Tom Taylor (Moltex Energy), Luke Godfrey (Moltex Energy)
First Results of Uranium Nitride Fuel Characterization Using Accelerated Fuel Qualification Process
2:50–3:10PM PDT
A. Levinsky (LANL), Z. Miller (LANL), M. Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), T. Matthews (LANL), G.T. Craven (LANL), M.W.D. Cooper (LANL), V. Mehta (LANL), D.A. Andersson (LANL), J.T. Rizk (LANL)
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