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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Dragonfly, a Pu-fueled drone heading to Titan, gets key NASA approval
Curiosity landed on Mars sporting a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in 2012, and a second NASA rover, Perseverance, landed in 2021. Both are still rolling across the red planet in the name of science. Another exploratory craft with a similar plutonium-238–fueled RTG but a very different mission—to fly between multiple test sites on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon—recently got one step closer to deployment.
On April 25, NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) announced that the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s icy moon passed its critical design review. “Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly’s mission design, fabrication, integration, and test plans are all approved, and the mission can now turn its attention to the construction of the spacecraft itself,” according to NASA.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 17, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EDT
Session Chair:
Zhouxiang Fei (University of Strathclyde)
Alternate Chair:
Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (ANS)
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Trends for Field Programmable Gate Array Technology and Implications for Safety Critical Applications in Nuclear Power Plants
Mark Burzynski (SunPort), Sean Kelley (SunPort)
Paper
An Isolation Design Strategy for Implementing Secure and Safety-Critical Applications in FPGA
Abhi D. Rajagopala (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Smitha Gautham (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carl Elks (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Safety Instrumentation and Control Technologies for Small Modular Reactors and Advanced Reactors
Arnaud Duthou (Rolls-Royce Civil Nuclear)
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Safety-Related Instrumentation and Control Pilot Upgrade: Initial Scoping Phase Implementation and Lessons Learned
Paul Hunton (INL), Robert England (INL), Gerald Segner (Exelon Generation), Mark Samselski (Exelon Generation), David Herrell (MPR Assoc.), William Jessup (MPR Assoc.), Sean Lawrie (ScottMadden Inc.), Mike Kerrigan (ScottMadden Inc.)
Potential Use of Thinklogical's KVM Technology in Safety Applications
Richard Turk (Technology Resources), Richard Cooper (Thinklogical), James Gleason (GLSEQ), David Herrell (MPR Assoc.)
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