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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) is currently seeking qualified candidates to fill an open committee member position. Applications for the position will be accepted until July 30. The ACRS is the world’s oldest organization devoted to reactor safety, and the group reports directly to the NRC’s commissioners in order to provide independent technical reviews of and advice on a wide variety of nuclear topics.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, June 8, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EDT|5
Session Chair:
Marilyn Delgado
Alternate Chair:
Guillaume P. Mignot
Session Organizer:
Jun Wang
Track Organizer:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
WELCOME TO THE FIRST ANS VIRTUAL MEETING! This session is sponsored by the Thermal Hydraulics Division. We have four speakers within this session. The summaries are available for download. Each session will be recorded in case you miss it!
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High Fidelity Characterization of the Flow in a 5x5 Rod Bundle with a Customized Spacer Grid
Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.), Thien Nguyen (Texas A&M Univ.), Gabriel C. Q. Tomaz (Texas A&M Univ.), Camila F. Matozinhos (Texas A&M Univ.)
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Experimental Quantification of Form Drag on Rising Bubbles Using PIV
Qiao Wu (Oregon State Univ.), Wade Marcum (Oregon State Univ.), Isaiah Wieland (Oregon State Univ.), Alexander Duenas (Oregon State Univ.)
Design of a Pebble Bed Heat Transfer Separate Effects Test
Nicolas Zweibaum (Kairos Power, LLC), Brian Woods (Oregon State Univ.), Connor Dionne (Oregon State Univ.), Shikha Kumar (Oregon State Univ.), Joshua Halsted (Oregon State Univ.), Izabela Gutowska (Oregon State Univ.), Jacob Uselman (Oregon State Univ.)
Investigation of the influence of the bundle geometry distortion on the critical heat flux
Daniya Kireeva (NRC Kurchatov Institute), Dmitry Oleksyuk (NRC Kurchatov Institute)