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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The Meta-Vistra deal: A closer look
With last Friday's announcement regarding its vision for nuclear energy, Meta has entered into 20-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) for more than 2,600 MW of electricity from a combination of three Vistra-owned nuclear plants to support the tech behemoth's planned operations in the PJM region.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, June 17, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine F
Session Chair:
Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Sunming Qin (INL)
This session will conclude with a brief THD Awards Ceremony. Two awards for excellence in reviewing papers/summaries and a best paper award will be presented.
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Parametric Study of the CHF Occurrence During RIAs for High Burnup Fuels.
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Luiz C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Lise Charlot (INL)
Paper
Development of Segregated Thermal-Hydraulics Solvers in MOOSE
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Peter German (INL), Alexander D. Lindsay (INL), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Guillaume L. Giudicelli (INL), Ramiro O. Freile (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL)
Numerical Evaluation of Effective Thermal Conductivity of PCM with Metal Foam Incorporating Buoyancy Effects for Thermal Energy Storage
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Janghun Han (Hanyang Univ.), Junsoo Yoo (INL), Sunming Qin (INL), Minseop Song (Hanyang Univ.)
A Eulerian Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Particle Transport During Fuel Dispersal
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Avinash Moharana (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Shanbin Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Simulation of Pebble Bed Conduction Cooldown Using LIGGGHTS DEM Software Package
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Andres Gomez (Purdue Univ.), John Matulis (Purdue Univ.), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue Univ.)
Preliminary Analysis of Fluid-Structure Interaction Behavior for MITR LEU Fuel Elements
4:55–5:15PM PDT
M. Sharabi (ANL), C. Bojanowski (ANL), W. Mohamed (ANL), G. Wang (ANL), M. Sitek (ANL), K. Anderson (ANL), L.-W. Hu (MIT), E. Wilson (ANL)
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