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August 24–27, 2026
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DOE’s Marla Morales talks with ANS’s Craig Piercy
A recent American Nuclear Society webinar featured an extended one-on-one conversation between ANS CEO Craig Piercy and Marla Morales, the acting deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and high-level waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy. The two discussed the future of the fuel cycle in the United States, especially as it relates to the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses program launched by the DOE earlier this year.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm H
Session Chair:
Alex Grannan (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Eric Cervi (ANL)
Session Organizers:
Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Mauricio E. Tano (INL)
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Sensitivity Analyses of Natural Convection in the AP1000 Passive Containment Cooling System Following LBLOCA Using CFD
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Hossam H. Abdellatif (Univ. Idaho), David Arcilesi (Univ. Idaho), Palash K. Bhowmik (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
Paper
Modeling In-Reactor Temperature Gradients in Lithium Aluminate Ceramic Pellets
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Nathan Carstens (PNNL), Mie Azuma (PNNL), Robert Gates (PNNL)
Post-Test Calculation Results of C2.1 Test of OECD-ATLAS3 International Cooperation Program
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Seok Cho (KAERI), Byoung-Uhn Bae (KAERI), Yu-Sun Park (KAERI), Nam-Hyun Choi (KAERI), Jae-Bong Lee (KAERI), Jong-Rok Kim (KAERI), Kyoung-Ho Kang (KAERI)
Uncertainty Propagation from Experiment Measurements to Modeling Approaches: A Case for SMR Steam Entrainment Testing
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Kenneth L. Fossum (INL), Palash K. Bhowmik (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)