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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|Sponsored by OPD
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Robb Stewart (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alternate Chair:
Temi Adeyeye (Westinghouse)
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
Student Assistant:
Zayed Ahmed
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Comparative Reliability Study on Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Integrated Energy Systems
1:05–1:25PM EST
Samantha Sabatino (ORNL), Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
Paper
Modeling of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage
1:25–1:45PM EST
Amey Shigrekar (INL), Trevor Casper (Univ. of Idaho), Richard Christensen (Univ. of Idaho)
Attachment — Supplemental Summary with Updated Figures
Modeling a Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor with Thermal Energy Storage Using Optimal Dispatch and SAM
1:45–2:05PM EST
Gabriel J. Soto (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Una Baker (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Brian White (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Mike Wagner (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Experimental Investigation of Chemical Heat Pumps Using Composite Pellets for Temperature Augmentation
2:05–2:25PM EST
Aman Gupta (Univ. of Idaho), Paul D. Armatis (Oregon State Univ.), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Brian M. Fronk (Oregon State Univ.), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho)
Dynamic Model of Absorption Cycle for Chemical-Absorption Heat Pump for Process Heating Applications
2:25–2:45PM EST
Paul D. Armatis (Oregon State Univ.), Aman Gupta (Univ. of Idaho), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho), Brian M. Fronk (Oregon State Univ.)
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