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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|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|10:00–11:45AM MST|Kaibab
Session Chair:
Tejaswini Ravindra Vaidya
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Embedded Sensors for Monitoring Additively Manufactured Nuclear Components
10:00–10:20AM MST
Holden C. Hyer (ORNL), Christian M. Petrie (ORNL)
Paper
Microstructural Texture Prediction for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Using In-Situ Melt-Pool Signatures
10:20–10:40AM MST
Anant Raj (Purdue), Benjamin Stegman (Purdue), Hany Abdel-Khalik (Purdue), Xinghang Zhang (Purdue), John W. Sutherland (Purdue)
CVI Processing for 3D Printed SiC Densification
10:40–11:00AM MST
Brian Jolly (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Michael Gibbons (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Stephanie Bruffey (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Kent Buske (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Nate Shepardson (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Andrew Falkowski (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Lanny Garside (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Tom Crotzer (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.)
Additive Manufacturing in FCM Fuel Production
11:00–11:20AM MST
Michael Trammell (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.)
Ceramic Heat Exchangers for Gas-Cooled SMR
11:20–11:40AM MST
Charles Lewinsohn (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Marc Flinders (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Jesse Dumas (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Joseph Fellows (ceramic theory), Mark Anderson (Madison Scientific Innovations)
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