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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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After nearly three weeks of a government shutdown, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has furloughed 1,400 employees and has retained 400 as essential employees who will continue working without pay.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2022)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Redondo
Session Chair:
Nolan Goth
Alternate Chair:
Sheng Zhang
Session Organizer:
W. David Pointer
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Scaled Experiment Design for Transient Heat Transfer in Molten Salt-Cooled Reactor Channels
Omar Ashraf Alzaabi (Univ. California, Berkeley), Per Peterson (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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Numerical Investigations on Hydrodynamic Molten Salt Lubricated Bearings
Yuqi Liu (Univ. New Mexico), Daniel L. Barth (High Temperature System Designs), Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Shuai Che (Univ. Michigan), Minghui Chen (Univ. New Mexico)
Design of a High-Temperature Molten-Salt Pump Bearing Test Facility
CFD Analysis of Tritium Removal from Molten Salt Reactors by Sparging Helium Gas Bubbles
Anthony G. Bowers Jr. (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Subash L. Sharma (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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