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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FED
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Palm B
Session Chair:
Atul Kumar
Alternate Chair:
Lauren M. Garrison
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
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Development, Validation and Application of a Mathematical Model for Inertial Fusion Energy Using OpenFOAM
8:00–8:20AM PDT
Eric Cervi (Politecnico di Milano), Antonio Cammi (Politecnico di Milano)
Paper
VERTEX Closures: Towards Data-Driven 3D MHD Turbulence Models for Fusion Blanket Simulations
8:20–8:40AM PDT
Arpan Sircar (ORNL), Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL)
Helium Flow Simulations of Heat Transfer Enhancement Structures for Blanket First Wall Cooling
8:40–9:00AM PDT
Yuqiao Fan (ORNL), Cody S. Wiggins (ORNL)
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Development of OpenMC Reduced Ordered Models to Evaluate Solid Breeder Concepts
9:00–9:20AM PDT
Yogendra S. Panchal (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Marina Rizk (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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