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-\begin{frame}
-  \frametitle{Conclusions}
-        \begin{block}{SaltProc}
-        \begin{itemize}
-                \item New tool \textbf{SaltProc} was developed to simulate fuel depletion in the \gls{MSR} core with taking into account online reprocessing.
-                \item \textbf{SaltProc} was tested for \gls{MSBR} conceptial design, equilibrium fuel salt composition was found and verified against recent \gls{ORNL} studies.
-		\item Average $^{232}$Th refill rate throughout 20 years of operation is approximately 2.39 kg/day or 100 g/GWh$_e$.
-		\end{itemize}
-		\end{block}
-		\begin{block}{Moltres}
-		\begin{itemize}
-		\item New tool \textbf{Moltres} was developed for modeling coupled physics in fluid-fuelled, molten salt reactors.
-		\item 2D-axisymmetric and 3D multiphysics models are presented.
-		\item \textbf{Moltres} demonstrated strong parallel scaling (up to 384 physical cores) on a typical model problem but further optimization required.
-		\item Over 55,000 node-hours were consumed on \textbf{Blue Waters} to perform this research.
-        \end{itemize}
-        \end{block}
-        
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
-  \frametitle{Future research}
-         
-              \begin{block}{Future research effort}
-                 \begin{enumerate}
-                \item Equilibrium state search for Transatomic \gls{MSR} (\textgreater 30,000 node-hours).
-                \item Fuel cycle performance analysis for load-following regime \\ (\textgreater 40,000 node-hours).
-                \item \gls{LWR} fuel transmutation in \gls{MSR} viability (\textgreater 30,000 node-hours).
-		\vspace*{0.15in}
-                \item Start exploring transients in Moltres, e.g. explore responses to reactivity insertion or gaseuos poisons removal (\textgreater 70,000 node-hours).
-               \end{enumerate}
-               \end{block}
-\end{frame}
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     \item Kathryn Huff is additionally supported by the NRC Faculty Development Program, the NNSA (awards 
     DE-NA0002576 and DE-NA0002534), and the International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER).
     \item The authors would like to thank  members of Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles
-research group (ARFC) at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign who 
+research group (ARFC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign who 
 provided valuable code reviews and proofreading.
     \item Alex Lindsay (Idaho National Laboratory), Gavin Ridley (University of Tennessee-Knoxville).
   \end{itemize}
     \begin{figure}[t]
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