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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Nano to begin drilling next week in Illinois
It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Palm H
Session Chair:
Zhiee Ooi (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Thanh Hua (ANL)
Session Organizers:
Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Mauricio E. Tano (INL)
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Thermal Hydraulic Modeling of Molten Salt Microreactor Using RELAP5-3D
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Jackson Ivory (Brigham Young Univ.), Andrew Larsen (Brigham Young Univ.), Matthew Memmott (Brigham Young Univ.)
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Heterogeneous Model for Heat Transfer in Porous Debris Bed
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Ji-Won Choi (Sejong Univ.), In-Sik Ra (Sejong Univ.), Gi-Young Tak (Sejong Univ.), Hae-Yong Jeong (Sejong Univ.)
Global Sensitivity Analysis of Distributed Fiber Optic Temperature Measurements in a Thermal Hydraulic System
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Lauren Kohler (NCSU), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Fuel Expansion in Pressure Supported Fuel Reactors
4:15–4:35PM PDT
T. Wielenga (Wielenga Innovation Foundation), W.S. Yang (Univ. Michigan), Xiaodong Sun (Univ. Michigan)
Code Benchmark of Pressurized Conduction Cooldown Transient in the High Temperature Test Facility
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Thanh Hua (ANL), Robert Kile (INL), Sung Nam Lee (KAERI), Ling Zou (ANL), Aaron Epiney (INL)
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