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LANL’s ZiaCore microreactor reaches criticality
Last week, Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that its ZiaCore microreactor was brought to zero-power criticality at high temperatures in April through May of this year during four weeks of experiments on the Deimos testbed at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC).
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Lincolnshire 1/2
Session Chair:
Donna Guillen (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Saya Lee (Penn State)
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Modeling the Oregon State University's High Temperature Test Facility via a Porous Media Approach
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Ismail Bouarich (INL), Lise Charlot (INL), Mauricio E. Tano Retamales (INL)
Presented by Guillaume Guidicelli (INL)
Paper
Benchmarking the OSU HTTF to StarCCM+
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Benjamin Nakhnikian-Weintraub (Oregon State), Izabela Gutowska (Oregon State)
Preliminary CFD Results of the Lower Plenum Mixing Test of the High Temperature Test Facility Benchmark
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Mohammed Muaaz M. Hussain (NRG PALLAS), Ferry Roelofs (NRG PALLAS)
Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) High-Temperature Test Facility (HTTF) Thermal-Hydraulics Benchmark: Error Scaling Exercise
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Aaron S. Epiney (INL), Ramon K. Yoshiura (INL), Mohammad G. Abdo (INL), Robert Kile (INL)
Progress Towards Validating a New RELAP5-3D Model of the High Temperature Test Facility
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Jonathan L. Barthle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Aaron S. Epiney (INL), Robert Kile (INL)