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Nuclear Installations Safety
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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 13, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Nathan J. Roskoff
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Analysis of Heavy Water Reactor Reactivity Device with a Dyadic Assembly Monte Carlo Model
1:00–1:20PM EST
Frederick N. Gleicher (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Shaw Wen (INL), Samuel Bays (INL), Gustavo Reyes (INL)
Paper
The Method of Weight Adjustment for Negative Cross Sections Sampling in Monte Carlo
1:20–1:40PM EST
Zhaoyuan Liu (Qilu Univ. Technology), Jingang Liang (Tsinghua Univ.), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
Improvement of the SCALE-6.3/XSProc Pointwise Slowing-Down Capability with the Bound Thermal Scattering Data Including High Forward Peaks
1:40–2:00PM EST
Kang Seog Kim (ORNL), Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL), Chris Chapman (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Feasibility Study for Breakeven Molten Salt Fast Reactor Using the PWR Spent Nuclear Fuels
2:00–2:20PM EST
Eunhyug Lee (KAIST), Taesuk Oh (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Preliminary Analysis of iDTMC-Implemented Predictor-Corrector Quasi-Static Monte-Carlo Simulation
2:20–2:40PM EST
Tae-suk Oh (KAIST), Inyup Kim (KAIST), Eunhyug Lee (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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