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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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MIT Maritime Consortium wins ABS approval
Maritime classification and certification organization the American Bureau of Shipping has granted its approval in principle (AIP) for the integration of a nuclear reactor into a cargo vessel propulsion system, as developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Maritime Consortium. This is the first AIP to be granted to a technology developed through the consortium, which includes founding members MIT, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, and Capital Maritime Group.
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)
Paper
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)