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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Supreme Court declines to hear case involving St. Louis contamination
The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday declined to hear an appeal from General Atomics subsidiary Cotter Corporation and Commonwealth Edison, an Exelon company, in a case over alleged radioactive contamination in the St. Louis, Mo., area, leaving in place an 8th Circuit Court ruling that allows the plaintiffs’ state-law tort claims to proceed under the federal Price-Anderson Act.
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)