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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 RPD
Monday, November 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 7
Session Chair:
Jason Hou (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Open-Source Computational Model of a Molten Chloride Fast Reactor
3:15–3:35PM MST
Harrison Reisinger (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nathaniel Howard (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Maxwell Wagner (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Peyton Mann (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Molten Salt Reactor Modeling in SCALE: Effects of Multigroup Libraries on Depletion Analysis
3:35–3:55PM MST
Christopher E. Bayne (Georgia Tech), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Tech)
MSR Reactivity, Power, and Inventory Simulations with SCALE
3:55–4:15PM MST
Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Austin Lo (ORNL), Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Parametric Study of the Thorium-Based Molten Salt Reactor Core
4:15–4:35PM MST
Seda Yilmaz Kaygisiz (Purdue), Shripad Revankar (Purdue)
MSRE Transient Benchmark Development and Evaluation: NEUP Project Updates
4:35–4:55PM MST
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Mohamed Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), Benjamin Betzler (ORNL), Tingzhou Fei (ANL), Kurt Harris (Flibe Energy)
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