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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Blades-in turbine inspections at Quad Cities set new benchmark for Constellation
When Constellation decided to install replacement Alstom low-pressure turbines at three of its boiling water reactor plants more than 15 years ago, one benefit was knowing the new turbines should operate reliably—and without major inspections—for several years.
Technical Session
Thursday, October 7, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Robert Nourgaliev (LLNL)
Session Organizer:
Student Producer:
Thomas Folk (Univ. of Michigan)
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Development of a Thermal Hydraulic Model for the Versatile Test Reactor Using the CTF Subchannel Code
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Cole Takasugi (NC State Univ.), Nicolas Martin (INL), SuJong Yoon (INL), Samuel Bays (INL), Maria Avramova (NC State Univ.), Kostadin Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
Paper
Development of Whole-Core Steady-State Thermal Hydraulic Model for Annular Fuel Type Small Modular Fluoride-Salt-Cooled Reactors
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Sriram Chandrasekaran (Georgia Institute of Technology), Srinivas Garimella (Georgia Institute of Technology)
A Coarse-Mesh-Based OpenFOAM Solver for Thermal-Hydraulic Simulation of Fuel Element in a Thermal Propulsion Reactor
11:30–11:55AM EDT
J. C. Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology), D. Kotlyar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Nodal Integral Methods in Curvilinear Coordinates Applied to Quadrilateral Elements
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Ibrahim Jarrah (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Rizwan-uddin (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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