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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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ANS’s Mentor Match applications open
Applications are now open for the American Nuclear Society’s newly redesigned mentoring program. Mentor Match is a unique opportunity available only to ANS members that offers year-round mentorship and networking opportunities to Society members at any point in their education.
The deadline to apply for membership in the inaugural summer cohort, which will take place July 1–August 31, is June 20. The application form can be found here.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD|Cosponsored by IRD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Northwestern/Ohio State
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Izabela Gutowska
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Model Development of the Thermal-Hydraulic Test Loop for Potential Use for the High Flux Isotope Reactor
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Joel L. McDuffee (ORNL)
Paper
Multiphysics Coupled Calculations Using OpenFOAM, Serpent, and External Heat Conduction Solver for Prismatic GCRs: A Case Study on HTTR
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Zaid Abulawi (Young Members Group), Ville Rintala (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology), Heikki Suikkanen (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology), Iztok Tiselj (University of Ljubljana), Juhani Hyvarinen (Lappeenranta University of Technology), Yang Liu (TAMU)
V-SMR: Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Integrated Simulation Platform for SMRs
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Yunje Cho (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute), Sung H. Choi (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute), Seong J. Do (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Progress in Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Models for NBSR LEU Conversion
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Cihang Lu (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Athi Varuttamaseni (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Peter Kohut (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Arantxa Cuadra (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Lap-yan Cheng (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Gerardo Aliberti (ANL), Kyle E. Anderson (ANL), John A. Stillman (ANL), Firat Cetinbas (argonone national laboratory), Dhongik S. Yoon (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
Recent Developments in STAT7 - Thermal Hydraulics Software with Statistical Uncertainty Propagation for Research and Test Reactors
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Sero Yang (ANL), Graham S. Wilson (ANL), Dhongik S. Yoon (ANL), Lin-Wen Hu (MIT), Arne P. Olson (ANL), Justin W. Thomas (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
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