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Thermal-Hydraulics - Celebration of 40 Years of NURETH

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).

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Neil E. Todreas, Sc.D.

Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Richard T. Lahey, Jr. - PhD

Edward E. Hood Professor Emeritus of Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Founding Director of PJM Interconnection LLC

Keynote Speaker

In Search of Efficient Methods to Capture Dominant Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer Phenomena
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Michael Z. Podowski, Ph.D., D.Sc

Professor Emeritus,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Pioneers of NURETH - A Recounting of the Past 40 Years

As a part of the 40^th 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).