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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Plenary Session
Monday, August 21, 2023|10:30AM–12:00PM EDT|Columbia 5-8
Session Chair:
Bao-Wen Yang (Delta Energy Group, DEQD/DEGNY)
NURETH-20 marks a key milestone of over 40 years of reactor thermal-hydraulics. As the flagship conference of ANS THD, NURETH has grown and expanded in the last 40 years and continues to impact the global thermal-hydraulic community. In this short panel, we celebrate the pioneers of NURETH (Todreas, Lahey and Podowski).
As a part of the 40th year anniversary celebration, this special panel is dedicated to recognizing and celebrating 40 years of success throughout the series of 20 NURETH conferences together with the founders, co-founders, and long term contributors of NURETH. As the invited panelists, the founders and co-founders of NURETH, Prof. Richard Lahey, Prof. Neil Todreas, and Prof. Michael Podowski will recollect and share their thoughts and experience in creating ANS THD and the NURETH series through their most enlightening speeches.
The trend of technical evolution in reactor thermal-hydraulics will be reviewed and summarized hand-in-hand with the history of the NURETH series (to be further explored).
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Attachment — Thermal-Hydraulics RTL's NURETH Talk
Attachment — Richard Lahey NURETH20
Attachment — Michael Podowski NURETH20.
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Bao-Wen Yang slides
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