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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
ICRS 14/RPSD 2022 speaker
Dr. Vasilis Vlachoudis, PhD in Nuclear Physics from Univ. of Bordeaux France. Currently holds a senior staff position as physicist in the Beam Matter Interactions section at CERN. The section is in charge of the FLUKA MC code development and its application on the CERN accelerator complex. Vasilis is leading the FLUKA (https://fluka.cern) code development and he is the lead author of flair (https://flair.cern) graphical interface used for FLUKA and other MC codes. Furthermore, Vasilis has an active role in the neutron time of flight facility at CERN as responsible for the spallation target physics optimization and design, as well as the experimental data processing chain.
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