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Mark Peterspresident@ans.org
One month into my term as president of the American Nuclear Society, it is already clear that the nuclear field continues to move quickly. June alone brought a striking number of developments, each one pointing to the momentum of this moment.
Antares’s Mark-0 microreactor reaching criticality at Idaho National Laboratory was more than a technical milestone. It effectively brought reactor No. 53 on line at a site that has shaped much of the nation’s nuclear history, with 52 reactors built there since 1951. And more criticality starts were delivered in June and July, enabled by the Department of Energy and its partnerships with private companies.
At the same time, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continuing its broad regulatory reform effort, and nuclear technology is being used to help combat an outbreak of New World screwworm that has spread to the United States.
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)
