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Nuclear Criticality Safety
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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NDA funds Plutonium Ceramics Academic Hub with U.K. universities
The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced that it will establish a Plutonium Ceramics Academic Hub with the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield. The announcement follows a decision by the U.K. government in January to immobilize the country’s inventory of civil separated plutonium at the Sellafield nuclear site, mitigating the material’s long-term safety and security risks.
Technical Session|Methods
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Franciscan D
Session Chair:
Nader Satvat (Kairos Power)
Alternate Chair:
Marianna Papadionysiou (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Session Organizer:
Mathieu Hursin (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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On the Impact of Fuel Velocity Profile on Loss of Delayed Neutron Precursors in the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
10:15–10:35AM PDT
Mario Ponce Tovar (Seaborg Technologies), Lorenz Fischer (Seaborg Technologies), Lubomir Bures (Seaborg Technologies)
Paper
Development of the Molten Salt Reactor Application in French Reference System Code CATHARE3
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Ruggero Rosselli (CEA), Nathan Greiner (CEA), Marine Anderhuber (CEA), Théotime Le Borgne de Palfray (CEA)
Presented by Mathis Caprais (CEA)
Development of a Delayed Neutron Precursor Tracking Module for Molten Salt Reactors in the iMC Monte Carlo Code
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Inyup Kim (KAIST), Taesuk Oh (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Quantifying Uncertainties: Evaluating the Impact of Molten Salt Thermal Property Variability on Reactor Operation
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Davide Rotilio (Univ. California, Berkeley), Mauricio Tano (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Samuel Walker (INL), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), Renato Gatto (Sapienza Univ. di Roma)
Squirrel; a MOOSE Based App for Solving Quasi-Static Point Kinetics in Molten Salt Reactors
11:35–11:55AM PDT
P. Pfahl (Technical Univ. Denmark), A. Chambon (Technical Univ. Denmark), J. Groth-Jensen (Seaborg Technologies), B. Lauritzen (Technical Univ. Denmark)
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