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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, June 10, 2020|4:35–6:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Prashant Jain (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Elia Merzari
Track Organizer:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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Validation of the 1-D Thermal Stratification Model in Gallium Environment
Cihang Lu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Brendan Ward (Kansas State Univ.), Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State Univ.)
Paper
Cooling Channel Optimization in Additively Manufactured Gas-Cooled Reactor Core
Justin Weinmeister, Prashant K. Jain
Multi-Scale & Multi-Physics Analysis of PWR Steam Line Break Accident
Jae Ryong Lee (KAERI), Han Young Yoon (KAERI), Ik Kyu Park (KAERI)
Sodium Fire Models for In- and Ex-vessel Safety Analysis Code SPECTRA
Mitsuhiro Aoyagi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Akihiro Uchibori (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Takashi Takata (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Hiroyuki Ohshima (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Code Validation for SBLOCA Test of PHWR using MARS-KS
Kyunglok Baek (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Seon Oh Yu (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
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