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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NN Asks: What did you learn from ANS’s Nuclear 101?
Mike Harkin
When ANS first announced its new Nuclear 101 certificate course, I was excited. This felt like a course tailor-made for me, a transplant into the commercial nuclear world. I enrolled for the inaugural session held in November 2024, knowing it was going to be hard (this is nuclear power, of course)—but I had been working on ramping up my knowledge base for the past year, through both my employer and at a local college.
The course was a fast-and-furious roller-coaster ride through all the key components of the nuclear power industry, in one highly challenging week. In fact, the challenges the students experienced caught even the instructors by surprise. Thankfully, the shared intellectual stretch we students all felt helped us band together to push through to the end.
We were all impressed with the quality of the instructors, who are some of the top experts in the field. We appreciated not only their knowledge base but their support whenever someone struggled to understand a concept.
William D. Brown, Ehsan U. Khan, Neil E. Todreas
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 2 | June 1975 | Pages 164-168
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A27343
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Computer programs such as COBRA IIIC, which handle flow blockages, use a transverse momentum balance on a control volume of uniform width connecting any two subchannels to evaluate cross flow and momentum exchange effects on axial flow distribution. The transverse momentum balance employed has several constants that need to be determined empirically. This Note describes the method to develop such a correlation for three blockage configurations. It was found that with a constant width control volume, the data could not be satisfactorily correlated. A variable width control volume was therefore used to correlate the data behind flow blockage. A similar correlation could be developed ahead of the blockage but is not completed yet. Although the applicability of the correlation is limited to the blockage configurations analyzed, the variable width control volume method of correlating data that has evolved from this study is of general use in correlating such data.