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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NRC nominee Nieh commits to independent safety mission
During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine F
Session Chair:
Subash L. Sharma (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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Uncertainties for In-Reactor Testing of Tritium Loaded Getters with Temperature Control
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Mie Azuma (PNNL), Nathan Carstens (PNNL), Kevin Anderson (PNNL), Robert Gates (PNNL)
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Preliminary Experimental and Numerical Studies of Light-Core Vortex Rings
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Thien Duy Nguyen (ORNL), Nolan Goth (ORNL), Pablo Moresco (ORNL), Vincent Jodoin (ORNL), Vivek Rao (ORNL)
Identification of Relevant Dimensionless Parameters Using Buckingham Pi Analysis of Helical Rifled Tubes
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Ryan P. McGuire (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), James Vulcanoff (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Scaling Sensitivity Analysis of PUMA Bottom Drain Line Break Accident
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Xueyan Zhang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Jun Yang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology)
Correlation Models of Radioactive Particle Deposition in Ventilation Ducts in Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Daniel Orea (ORNL), Thien Duy Nguyen (ORNL), William McCarter (ORNL), Scott Nelson (ORNL), Joanna McFarlane (ORNL)
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