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NCSU’s advanced research reactor study to be funded by state
North Carolina’s fiscal year 2024 budget for the state has allocated $3 million for North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, to conduct a study to assess the feasibility for the establishment of an advanced nuclear research reactor.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
Track Organizer:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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Gas Dispersion Analysis for Glovebox Accident in a Ventilated Process Room
Si Y. Lee (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)
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Modelling Loss of Flow Transients in Gallium Thermal-hydraulic Facility Using Systems Code SAS4A/SASSYS-1 and Using CFD
Sundar Namala (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rizwan-uddin (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tyler Sumner (ANL)
CFD Modeling of NBSR Thermal Shield
Manikanta Grandhi (Texas A&M Univ., Kingsville), Xue Yang (Texas A&M Univ., Kingsville)
Probing Interfacial Momentum Closures in Two-phase Bubbly Flow with Machine Learning-aided Methods
Han Bao (INL), Jinyong Feng (MIT), Hongbin Zhang (INL), Nam Dinh (NCSU)
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