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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing
Monday, June 17, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Palm H
Session Chair:
Rui Hu (ANL)
Alternate Chairs:
Mauricio E. Tano (INL)
Palash K. Bhowmik (INL)
Session Organizers:
Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Steam Condensation Scaled Experiment in the Presence of Non-Condensable Gas for Reactor Containment Passive Safety Analysis
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Palash K. Bhowmik (INL), Joshua P. Schlegel (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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Comparison of Experimental Data with Thermal-Hydraulic Codes RELAP5-3D and TRACE for Power Transient Flow Boiling Scenarios
3:35–3:55PM PDT
M.A. Moreno (Univ. New Mexico), N.A. Meehan (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), C.M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico), N.R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Validation of the SAM Code: Development of a Coupled 1D/3D Model of the TALL-3D Natural Circulation Loop
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Eric Cervi (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
Modeling and Validation of Heat Pipes with Non-Condensable Gases
4:15–4:35PM PDT
M. Tano (INL), P. Sabharwall (INL), K. Sweetland (LANL)
RELAP5 Simulations of the PASI Experiment on Containment Wall Condensation
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Gianmarco Grippo (Univ. Bologna), Massimiliano Polidori (ENEA)
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