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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Building momentum for a stronger ANS
Hash Hashemianpresident@ans.org
The 2025 ANS Annual Conference in Chicago was a powerful springboard to begin my term as president. With over 1,400 attendees, it was one of our most dynamic gatherings in recent memory—full of energy, ideas, and a shared commitment to advancing nuclear science and technology.
As we move forward, my focus is clear: to elevate the role of nuclear in environmental protection, national security, energy diversity, and grid stability. These priorities are not just strategic—they are essential to a cleaner, more resilient future.
The goals I laid out at the conclusion of the Board of Directors meeting in June are simple, but I am sure they will be effective in engaging our community.
One simple change to start is the move away from the term meetings—the American Nuclear Society now uses the term conferences to describe its two yearly flagship gatherings, to more appropriately reflect the more than 1,000 attendees that these events bring together.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Palm H
Session Chair:
Ketan Ajay (Purdue Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Alex Grannan (ANL)
Session Organizers:
Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Mauricio E. Tano (INL)
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Preliminary Analysis on Thermal-Hydraulic Behavior of PBR Cores Using DEM-CFD Coupled Method
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Joong Young Seo (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Young Beom Jo (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Sung Joon Kwon (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Eung Soo Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
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Preliminary Multi-GPU Simulation on IVR-ERVC by Coupling Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and System Code
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Yelyn Ahn (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Tae Soo Choi (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), So-Hyun Park (KAERI), Eung Soo Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Safety Analysis and Design Specifications of MIT's Sodium Graphite Micro-Reactor
10:40–11:00AM PDT
N. Kallieros (ETHZ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), G. Park (MIT), J. Buongiorno (MIT), K. Shirvan (MIT)
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Comparative Study of Critical Heat Flux Prediction Using Deep Learning Models (Convolutional Neural Networks versus Deep Neural Networks)
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Messaoud Djeddou (Mohamed Khider Univ.), Ibrahim A. Hammed (Norwegian Univ. Science and Technology), Xingang Zhao (ORNL), Jehad Al Dallal (Gulf Univ. Science and Technology)
Inverse Problem Approach for Estimating Operating Conditions and Uncertainty Quantification in Actual Forced Convection System
11:20–11:40AM PDT
Haeseong Kim (MIT), Sacit Cetiner (INL), Matteo Bucci (MIT)
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