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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
Technical Session|Metallurgy and Materials Science
Thursday, September 12, 2024|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT|Gold Ballroom
Session Chair:
Benoit Oudot
Alternate Chair:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF): Overview and Context
11:00–11:30AM EDT
Timothy Brown (Savannah River Site)
Paper
Natural Recovery in Delta Plutonium Alloys
11:30–11:50AM EDT
Clarissa A. Yablinsky (LANL), Tomas A. Martinez (LANL), Todd P. Martinez (LANL), Zachary S. Levin (LANL)
Evaluation of Mechanically Induced δ to αʹ Phase Transformation in Pu-Ga Alloy
11:50AM–12:10PM EDT
Jacqueline I. Royer (PNNL), Matthew T. Athon (PNNL), Matthew J. Olszta (PNNL), Dallas D. Reilly (PNNL), Dallin J. Barton (PNNL), Scott H. Swenson (PNNL), Strother J. Cooper (PNNL)
Correlating Microstructure to the Thermal Conductivity of Irradiated U-19Pu-10Zr Fuel
12:10–12:30PM EDT
Allison Probert (Univ. Florida), Ethan Hisle (INL), Mitchell Mika (Univ. Florida), Mary Sevart (Univ. Florida), Matthew Goodson (INL), Rafael Garcia (INL), Luca Capriotti (INL), Cynthia Adkins (INL), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
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