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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|Experimental Reactor Physics
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 1
Session Chair:
Luka Snoj
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Mathieu Hursin
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Reactivity Relative Monitoring Using Threshold Fission Chambers with the Current-to-Flux Method for the Accelerator Driven VENUS-F Subcritical Reactor
3:30–3:50PM PDT
N. Marie (Normandie Univ.), A. Billebaud (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), S. Chabod (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), A. Kochetkov (SCK CEN), A. Krása (SCK CEN), F.-R. Lecolley (Normandie Univ.), J.-L. Lecouey (Normandie Univ.), G. Lehaut (Normandie Univ.), N. Messaoudi (SCK CEN), G. Vittiglio (SCK CEN), J. Wagemans (SCK CEN)
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Epithermal Neutron Spectrum Filtering Experiment Design at the VENUS-F Zero Power Fast Reactor
3:50–4:10PM PDT
Federico Grimaldi (SCK CEN), Patrick Blaise (Framatome), Antonin Krasa (SCK CEN), Pierre-Etienne Labeau (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles), Guido Vittiglio (SCK CEN), Jan Wagemans (SCK CEN)
Understanding the Moderator Temperature Coefficient of Reactivity of Prismatic Graphite-Moderated Gas-Cooled Reactors with Burnable Absorbers
4:10–4:30PM PDT
D. Bazzani (Politecnico di Milano), S. Wijaya (KAIST), A. Cammi (Politecnico di Milano), Y. Kim (KAIST)
A Data-Driven Incident Detection Method for the Safe Operation of Molten Salt Fast Reactors
4:30–4:50PM PDT
N. Abrate (Politecnico di Torino), N. Caruso (Politecnico di Torino), S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino), S. Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano), N. Pedroni (Politecnico di Torino)
Transient Modeling and Simulation for Deimos, an Advanced Reactor Experiment
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Alexis Maldonado (LANL), Theresa E. Cutler (LANL), Kristin N. Stolte (LANL), Holly R. Trellue (LANL)
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