Book of Abstracts

Complete Book of Abstracts

Oral Presentations
1	Monday
	1.0	Plenary
	1.1	Inertial Fusion Energy - 1
	1.2	Modeling and Simulation - 1
	1.3	Advanced Fission - 1
	1.4	Fusion-Fission Hybrids - 1
	1.5	Magnetic Fusion Energy - 1
	1.6	Fuel Cycles
2	Tuesday
	2.0	Plenary
	2.1	Advanced Fission - 2
	2.2	Improving Performance
	2.3	Fusion-Fission Hybrids - 2
	2.4	Modeling and Simulations - 2
	2.5	Inertial Fusion Energy - 2
	2.6	Transmutation
3	Wednesday
	3.0	Plenary
	3.1	Magnetic Fusion Energy - 2
	3.2	Cogeneration and Other Fission
4	Thursday
	4.0	Plenary
	4.1	Accelerator Applications
	4.2	Education and Economics
	4.3	Fusion
	4.4	Sustainability
	4.5	Plenary
Poster Presentations
1	Monday
	1.7	Poster-1
2	Tuesday
	2.7	Poster-2

Oral Presentations

Monday AM, May 16

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1.0 Plenary		8:30 AM
	Meier, Wayne	Opening Remarks
1.0.1	Moses, Edward	The National Ignition Facility: Status and Progress Towards Fusion Ignition
1.0.2	Parmentola, John	Capping, Converting and Reducing Future Waste Streams
1.1 Inertial Fusion Energy - 1		10.30 AM
1.1.1	Cuneo, Michael	Pulsed-Power Inertial Fusion Energy
1.1.2	Dunne, Mike	Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) - Overview and Pathway to Delivery
1.1.3	Eliezer, Shalom	The Comeback of Shock Waves in IFE
1.1.4	Sethian, John	Inertial Fusion Energy with Krypton Fluoride Lasers
1.1.5	Perlado, Jose Manuel	Design of HiPER IFE Chamber Dynamics under Repetitive Operation: interaction with Lasers, Target Injection, Remote Handling and Assessment of Potential Blanket for Power Plant
1.2 Modeling & Simulation - 1		10:30 AM
1.2.1	Sawan, Mohamed	Recent Advances in Development of Fusion Neutronics Predictive Capabilities
1.2.2	Behera, Rakesh	Investigation of ThO2-Based Mixed Oxide Fuels Using Atomic Level Simulations
1.2.3	Chen, Xue-Nong	Theoretical Modeling of Radial Standing Wave Reactor
1.2.4	Ozgener, Huseyin	Coarse Mesh Rebalance Acceleration of Power Iteration in Adjoint Diffusion Calculations
1.2.5	Tsvetkov, Pavel	WITHDRAWN: Fidelity Needs for Safety, Performance and Fuel Cycle Evaluations in Integrated Simulations of Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
1.2.6	Zhang, Dalin	Numerical Studies of Axial Fuel Shuffling

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Monday PM, May 16

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1.3 Advanced Fission - 1		1:30 PM
1.3.1	Kotake, Shoji	Safety Design Approach for a Large-Scale Japan Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (JSFR)
1.3.2	Schleicher, Robert	Configuring EM2 to Meet the Challenges of Economics, Waste Disposition and Non-Proliferation Confronting Nuclear Energy in the U.S.
1.3.3	Laufer, Michael	Overview of the Technology Development Path and Experimental Program for the Pebble-Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor
1.3.4	Totemeier, Aaron	Technical and Economic Advantage of All-Metal Fuel
1.3.5	Zanino, Roberto	Multi-Physics Modeling of Innovative Lead-cooled Fast Reactors
1.4 Fusion-Fission Hybrids - 1		1:30 PM
1.4.1	Li, Maosheng	The Project of Fusion-Fission Hybrid Energy Reactor in China
1.4.2	Miley, George	Fusion-Fission Hybrid using a D-D Cylindrical Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Driver
1.4.3	Moir, Ralph	Axisymmetric Magnetic Mirror Fusion-Fission Hybrid
1.4.4	Şahin, Sümer	Utilization of Reactor Grade Plutonium as Energy Multiplier in the LIFE Engine
1.4.5	Zucchetti, Massimo	Compact Tokamaks as Convenient Neutron Sources for Hybrid Reactors
1.5 Magnetic Fusion Energy - 1		3:30 PM
1.5.1	Gascon, Jose Carlos	Design, Challenges and Key Features for the ITER Electrical Power Distribution
1.5.2	Huang, Keh-Ning	Relativistic Quantum Collision Theory for Many-Particle Systems
1.5.3	Lumsdaine, Arnold	Optimal Design of Active Cooling for High Duty Cycle Spherical Tokamak Centerpost
1.5.4	Nygren, Richard	Science in Fusion Technology
1.5.5	Strykowsky, Ronald	National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade
1.6 Fuel Cycles		3:30 PM
1.6.1	Fukada, Satoshi	Tritium Recovery from Liquid Blanket Systems of Fusion Reactor
1.6.2	Chapline, George	Monitoring Spent or Reprocessed Nuclear Fuel Using Fast Neutrons
1.6.3	Snead, Lance	Microencapsulated Fuels: A Transformational Technology for Next Generation Reactors
1.6.4	Troutner, Jeffrey	Neutron Absorber Material Supplementation

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Tuesday AM, May 17

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2.0 Plenary		8:30 AM
2.0.1	Wu, Yican	A Practical Way to Fusion Application through Fusion-Fission Hybrid Systems
2.0.2	Kurtz, Richard	Development of High-Performance Structural Materials for Fusion
2.0.3	McCarthy, Kathryn	Fusion Technology and Fission Technology - Similarities in R&D Needs
2.1 Advanced Fission - 2		10:30 AM
2.1.1	Aumeier, Steven	Nuclear Hybrid Energy Systems
2.1.2	Vezzoni, Barbara	Optimization of Safety Parameters and Accident Mitigation Measures for Innovative Fast Reactor Concepts
2.1.3	Salomaa, Rainer	Issues on Application of Commercial LWR Core Areas for Irradiation and for Testing of Advanced Fuels
2.1.4	Di Maria, Salvatore	Neutronic Assessment and Criticality Analysis of the In-vessel Fuel Storage Facilities in the CDT/FASTEF Reactor Design Project
2.1.5	Tsvetkov, Pavel	High-Fidelity Modeling of VHTRs for Performance Evaluations
2.1.6	Subki, M.Hadid	Status, Generic Technical Issues and Prospect of Small and Medium-sized Reactors Development and Deployment
2.2 Improving Performance		10:30 AM
2.2.1	Odette, G. Robert	The Opportunities and Challenges in Developing New Structural Materials that will Enable Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
2.2.2	Pawel, Steven	Compatibility Assessment of Advanced Stainless Steels in Sodium
2.2.3	Baek, Byung Chan	Operating Experiences of Main Steam Flow-Based Power Monitoring to OPR1000 Plants
2.2.4	Khalifa, Hesham	Investigating the Relationship Between SiC Composite Fabrication Parameters and Mechanical Performance
2.2.5	Rieth, Michael	The Impact of Refractory Material Properties on the Helium Cooled Divertor Design
2.2.6	Youchison, Dennis	Evaluation of Heat Transfer in High-Temperature Refractory Foam Heat Exchangers using Computational Fluid Dynamics

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Tuesday PM, May 17

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2.3 Fusion-Fission Hybrids - 2		1:30 PM
2.3.1	Jiang, Jieqiong	Conceptual Design of Fusion-Fission Hybrid Multi-Functional Experimental Reactor (FDS-MFX)
2.3.2	Kammash, Terry	A Fusion Hybrid Reactor Based on The Gasdynamic Mirror (GDM)
2.3.3	Kramer, Kevin	Overview of Fusion-Fission Hybrid Blankets for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) Engine
2.3.4	Roth, Markus	Development of High-Power Laser Based Nuclear Applications
2.3.5	Zakharov, Leonid	Fusion-Fission Research Facility as a Practical Step Toward Hybrids
2.4 Modeling & Simulations - 2		1:30 PM
2.4.1	Şahin, Sümer	Comparisons of the Calculations Using Different Codes implemented in MCNPX Monte Carlo Transport Code for Accelerator Driven System Target
2.4.2	Ozgener, Bilge	An Assessment of Acceleration Techniques in Scattering Source Iterations
2.4.3	Peng, Yan	Study on Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Two-Component Two-Phase Flow in Anti-siphon Equipment of China Experimental Fast Reactor
2.4.4	Quintieri, Lina	Photo-neutron Source by High Energy Electron on High Z Targets: Comparison Between Monte Carlo Codes and Experimental Data
2.4.5	Savoldi, Laura	Thermal-Hydraulic Simulation of 80 kA Safety Discharge in the ITER Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) using the 4C Code
2.5 Inertial Fusion Energy - 2		3:30 PM
2.5.1	Perlado, Jose Manuel	Progress In Advanced Materials Under Extreme Conditions For Nuclear Fusion
2.5.2	Goodin, Daniel	Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) Programs at General Atomics
2.5.3	Latkowski, Jeff	Integrated Chamber Design for the Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) Engine
2.5.4	Lafuente, Antonio	Neutronic Studies on the Impact of Wall Shielding Penetrations for Laser IFE Systems
2.5.5	Reyes, Susana	Licensing Approach and Initial Safety Studies for the LIFE Power Plant
2.6 Transmutation		3:30 PM
2.6.1	Bai, Yunqing	Conceptual Design of Lead-Bismuth Cooled Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor (LEBCAR)
2.6.2	Han, Jung-Hoon	Preliminary Design Study of Fusion Transmutation Reactor based on ITER Platform
2.6.3	Imasaki, Kazuo	High Brightness Gamma Ray Generation for Nuclear Transmutation
2.6.4	Junghans, Arnd	The nELBE Neutron Time of Flight Facility
2.6.5	Romanello, Vincenzo	Comparison of the Waste Transmutation Potential of Different Innovative Dedicated Systems and Impact on the Fuel Cycle

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Wednesday AM, May 18

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3.0 Plenary		8:30 AM
3.0.1	Forsberg, Charles	Nuclear Energy beyond Base-Load Electricity: The Other 75% of U.S. Energy Demand
3.0.2	Azechi, Hiroshi	IFE/ Inertial Fusion R&D at Osaka
3.0.3	Sauthoff, Ned	ITER Project: Progress and Plans
3.1 Magnetic Fusion Energy - 2		10:30 AM
3.1.1	Morley, Neil	Fusion Nuclear Science Research to Establish the Basis for Fusion Nuclear Science Facility
3.1.2	Garofalo, Andrea	A Fusion Nuclear Science Facility Based on the Advanced Tokamak to Enable DEMO
3.1.3	Hesch, Klaus	Technology Developments at KIT towards a Magnetic Confinement Fusion Power Plant
3.1.4	Neilson, George	Pilot Plant Options for Magnetic Fusion Development
3.1.5	Peng, Martin	Fusion Nuclear Science and Engineering Research Motivation and Required Capabilities
3.2 Cogeneration & Other Fission		10:30 AM
3.2.1	Konishi, Satoshi	Waste Biomass Conversion by Nuclear Energy
3.2.2	Li, Xing Zhong	A Clean Nuclear Energy Using Hydrogen and Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
3.2.3	Matsuura, Hideaki	Study for Tritium Production for Fusion Reactor using High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor
3.2.4	Calderoni, Pattrick	Molten Fluoride Salt Heat Exchangers for Nuclear Power and Process Heat
3.2.5	Mukul, Nurul	WITHDRAWN: One Mega Electrical Power Grid Based on Nuclear Energy
3.2.6	Robertson, Eric	Integration of High Temperature Gas Reactors with In Situ Oil Shale Retorting

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Thursday AM, May 19

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4.0 Plenary		6:30 AM
4.0.1	Greene, Sherrell	Fluoride Salt-Cooled High Temperature Reactors – Technology Status and Development Strategy
4.0.2	Najmabadi, Farrokh	Fusion Power Plants: Visions and Development Pathway
4.0.3	Biarrotte, Jean-Luc	High Power Hadron Accelerators: Applications in Support of Nuclear Energy
4.1 Accelerator Applications		10:30 AM
4.1.1	Fluss, Michael	Single and Multi-ion Beam Facilities and their Application to Nuclear Energy
4.1.2	Ibarra, Angel	Irradiation Facilities for Fusion Materials Development
4.1.3	Podlech, Holger	The IFMIF Project
4.1.5	Cisneros, Anselmo	Feasibility Studies on Once Through Subcritical Cores Driven by Accelerator Driven Spallation Neutrons
4.2 Education and Economics		10:30 AM
4.2.1	Giot, Michel	Recent Trends in Nuclear Education and Training to Match the Needs
4.2.2	Minguez, Emilio	ENEN's Challenges in Response to the Industry and Regulatory Needs
4.2.3	Lönnroth, Tom	Education of Nuclear Energy Systems at Abo Akademi
4.2.4	Ferguson, Kenneth	Asset Management; Time for an Integrated Approach

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Thursday PM, May 19

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4.3 Fusion		1:30 PM
4.3.1	El-Guebaly, Laila	Fifty Years of Fusion Research: Historical Overview of Power Plant Studies and Discussion of Future Trends
4.3.2	Logan, Grant	Heavy-Ion Driven IFE
4.3.3	Imasaki, Kazuo	New Laser Fusion by Intense Laser
4.3.4	Kraft, David	Time-Dependent Fusion Reaction Rates in the Mechanical Adiabatic Compression of a Dense Plasma
4.3.5	Molvik, Arthur	Axisymmetric Magnetic Mirror Applications – Neutron Source to Fusion Power Plant
4.4 Sustainability		1:30 PM
4.4.1	Hamacher, Thomas	The Economic and Environmental Prospects of Fusion and Fission in the Long Term
4.4.2	Piera, Mireia	A General Approach to Nuclear Fission Sustainability and the Need for Specific Solutions. A Case Study on a New Coolant.
4.4.3	Cross, Benjamin	Sustainable Energy Security: Need for a Comprehensive Systematic Integrated Approach
4.4.4	Novikov, Vladimir	Embedding Emerging Nuclear Systems in Sustainable Development: the Shadow of Nuclear Past and a Potential Dark Side of Nuclear Future
4.4.5	Zhang, Qi	Long-term Planning for Nuclear Power’s Development in Japan for a Zero-carbon Electricity Generation System by 2100
4.5 Plenary		3:30 PM
4.5.1	Kim, Hyuck Jong	Fusion DEMO Program of Korea
4.5.2	Okano, Kunihiko	Conceptual Design Study and Strategy Toward Fusion Demonstration Plants
4.5.3	Velarde, Guillermo	Energy Synergism: A Framework for Energy Stability

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Poster Presentations

Monday PM, May 16

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1.7 Poster-1		5:00 PM
1.7.1	Sara Bortot	Feasibility Studies and Scope Analyses for a SUPERSTAR Demonstrator Neutronics Design
1.7.2	Cristhian Galvez	Direct Reactor Auxiliary Cooling System coolant selection for the PB-AHTR
1.7.3	Fabiano Cardosa	A Neutronic Evaluation of Reprocess Fuel and Depletion Study of VHTR
1.7.4	Boyce Travis	A Heat Transfer Correlation for Flow Channels in a Prismatic Core
1.7.5	Xiaoyan Yang	Research of Fast Reactor Fuel Management
1.7.6	Barbara Vezzoni	Analysis of a Hypothetical Italian Fuel Cycle: Transition to Fast Reactors
1.7.7	Yongliang Wang	Preliminary Evaluation of the Adequacy of Lithium Resources Supply for D-T Fusion Reactors
1.7.8	Ming Jin	Design and Analysis of the Blanket for Fusion-Fission Hybrid Multi-Functional Experimental Reactor (FDS-MFX)
1.7.9	Ming-Huang Wang	Neutronics Analysis of Spent Fuel Burner Blanket for a Fusion-Fission Hybrid Reactor (FDS-SFB)
1.7.10	Kamron Fazel	Low Energy Nuclear Reactions: Experimental Status, Contrast with Hot Fusion and Needed Actions
1.7.11	Kamron Fazel	Fusion Cross-Section Enhancement in Superconductors
1.7.12	Rafael Juarez	Current Status of HiPER 4a Phase: Waste and Radiological Evaluations
1.7.13	David Cereceda	Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Screw Dislocation Mobility in Tungsten
1.7.14	Alberto Fraile	Liquid Lead and Lithium. A Comprehensive Molecular Dynamics Study.
1.7.15	Sergio Courtin	Influence of Thermal Fluctuations in Radiation Damage Cascade Production and Defect Dynamics in Tungsten
1.7.16	Erin Hayward	Multiple Hydrogen Trapping at Monovacancies in BCC Iron
1.7.17	Dain Holdener	Convective Heating of the LIFE Engine Target During Injection
1.7.18	Jeffrey Powers	Integration of TRISO Fuel Performance Modeling into Mainstream Design Analyses
1.7.19	Jeffrey Seifried	Adjoint-Based Implicit Uncertainty Analysis for Figures of Merit in a Laser Inertial Fusion Engine
1.7.20	Tai Pham	An Investigation of Biological Dose Estimates inside a Space Station
1.7.21	Paloma Castro	Validation of Real Time Dispersion of Tritium in ITER Reactor Over the Western Mediterranean Basin in Different Assessments
1.7.22	Timothy Schriener	Neutronics Analysis of Long Operational Life LMRs for Lunar Surface Power
1.7.23	Graciany de P. Barros	Fast Accelerator Driven Subcritical System For Energy Production using Reprocessed Fuel
1.7.24	Chitra Bhatia	Transmutation Study of Actinides and Long Lived Fission Products using (n, xn) and (n, g) Reactions in the High Energy Spallation Neutron Flux Environment
1.7.25	Zhong Chen	Preliminary Neutronics Analysis of Lead-Bismuth Cooled Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor for Waste Transmutation (LEBCAR)
1.7.26	Renan Cunha	GB5 – A Linking Code Between MCNP5 and ORIGEN2.1 for Fuel Burnup and Radiotoxicity Analysis – DEN/UFMG Version
1.7.27	Pattrick Calderoni	Design and analysis of Fluoride salt-cooled High-temperature Reactor heat exchangers
1.7.28	Mohammadreza Nematollahi	Heat Transfer Analysis of a Mixing Vane on the Hexagonally Arranged Fuel Bundle Spacer
1.7.29	Mohammadreza Nematollahi	Experimental Evaluation of Natural Circulation Pressure Drop in a Boiling Channel
1.7.30	Inho Song	Development of IGCT Switch Module and Blip Resistor for KSTAR
1.7.31	Francesco Milani	Fusion Applications of Large DC-Current Interruption Units

Tuesday PM, May 17

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2.7 Poster-2		5:00 PM
2.7.1	Nematollahi, Mohammadreza	Quantitative Evaluation of Heat Transfer in Bubble Collapse Process in Subcooled Flow Boiling Condition
2.7.2	Kuteev, Boris	Options for a Steady-State Compact Fusion Neutron Source
2.7.3	Moir, Ralph	Fission-Suppressed Fusion, Thorium-Cycle Breeder and Nonproliferation
2.7.4	Cuesta-Lopez, Santiago	Hydrodynamics Study Regarding the Effect of Structural Molecular Anisotropies in a Model DT-fuel Pellet Implosion
2.7.5	Garoz, David	Diffusion of Temperature and Light Species between Armor and Structural Material in Inertial Fusion Reaction Chambers: a Case for HiPER
2.7.6	Guerrero, Carlo	Quantum Molecular Dynamics and Ab initio Studies of The Crystal Structure of Hydrogen Isotopes Near Triple Point.
2.7.7	Ho, Darwin	Performance of Ignition Capsules with Aerogel-Supported DT Fuel for the National Ignition Facility and for Reactor Applications
2.7.8	Powers, Sarah	Reliability Modeling in the Design of a New Energy Concept
2.7.9	Lei, Yian	Inertial Fusion Energy Concept Based on Thick Shell Implosion
2.7.10	Moral, Nuria	A Tritium Recycling Dynamics Assessment at HiPER4A W-Wall Chamber
2.7.11	VanDevender, Pace	Compact Plasma Power Station with Quasi Spherical Direct Drive Capsule for Fusion Yield and Inverse Diode for Driver-Target Standoff
2.7.12	Webb, William	Multi-Strand String Theory Applied to Fusion
2.7.13	Bourque, Robert	RACER (Ring ACElerated Reactor): Revisiting the Field-Reversed Mirror
2.7.14	Ployhar, Steve	The ITER Heat Rejection Challenge
2.7.15	Shumlak, Uri	The Sheared Flow Stabilized Z-Pinch
2.7.16	Takeno, Hiromasa	Studies on Modulation Process of Traveling Wave Direct Energy Converter for Advanced Fusion
2.7.17	Takeno, Hiromasa	Analytical Experiments Using a Bias-type Traveling Wave Direct Energy Converter Simulator Installed on GAMMA 10 Tandem Mirror
2.7.18	Yun, Sunghwan	Global Depletion Analysis of Breeder Unit Korean Helium Cooled Solider Breeder TBM in ITER
2.7.19	Zucchetti, Massimo	A High Field Tokamak Neutron Source Facility
2.7.20	Fukada, Satoshi	Fundamental Experiment and Analysis of Direct Energy Conversion using Proton-Conducting Ceramic Fuel Cells Supplied with High-Temperature Nuclear Heat and Natural Gas
2.7.21	Gopalapillai, Babulal	Design Features of ITER Cooling Water Systems to Minimize Environmental Impacts
2.7.22	Song, Inho	Study on the Qualification of ITER Toroidal Field Coil Fast Discharge Safety System
2.7.23	Miley, George	Small Power Cells Based on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENRS) - a New Type of “Green” Nuclear Energy
2.7.24	Aarnio, Pertti	Laser-Induced X-Ray Transmutation of Nuclides
2.7.25	Şahin, Sümer	Reduction of Weapon Grade Plutonium Inventories in a Thorium Burner
2.7.26	Wang, Weihuang	Structure Design and Analysis for Lead-Bismuth Cooled Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor (LEBCAR)

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