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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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A webinar, and a new opportunity to take ANS’s CNP Exam
Applications are now open for the fall 2025 testing period for the American Nuclear Society’s Certified Nuclear Professional (CNP) exam. Applications are being accepted through October 14, and only three testing sessions are offered per year, so it is important to apply soon. The test will be administered from November 12 through December 16. To check eligibility and schedule your exam, click here.
In addition, taking place tomorrow (September 19) from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (CDT), ANS will host a new webinar, “How to Become a Certified Nuclear Professional.” More information is available below in this article.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, June 10, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EDT|5
Session Chair:
W. David Pointer
Alternate Chair:
Brian G. Woods
Session Organizer:
Track Organizer:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
Advanced high temperature gas cooled reactors typically rely on high pressure gas flows for heat removal during normal operations and a mix of natural convection, radiation and conduction for heat removal under postulated accident conditions. The combination of high heat capacity structures, relatively low power density, high Prandtl number low-density coolant, and multiple heat removal mechanisms offers significant advantages in terms of passive safety. However, this combination also requires the careful development, verification, and validation of experimental facilities, models and analysis tools that must accurately describe a wide range of flow conditions and heat transfer phenomena. This session provides an opportunity to review current efforts in modeling, simulation or experiments and identify current challenges and opportunities associated with the thermal hydraulics of these systems.
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