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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC news roundup
Here’s a look at some recent announcements from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Summer SLR: The NRC this month published its final environmental impact statement for Summer Unit 1’s subsequent license renewal application. Dubbed a supplemental EIS, the report is an important step in determining if Dominion Energy can continue operating its 966-MWe Westinghouse pressurized water reactor unit for an additional 20 years beyond August 6, 2042, the current end of its license.
Keynotes Session
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|8:00–8:50AM EDT|Columbia 3/4
Session Chair:
Fan-Bill Cheung (PSU)
Dr. Robert (Bob) Salko performs research in the area of computational thermal hydraulics to support modeling and simulation of light water reactors and molten salt reactors. His primary focus has been on development of subchannel and system thermal hydraulics codes, which includes modeling of two-phase flow and heat transfer, coupling with other reactor modeling tools, deployment on high performance computing systems, and implementing quality assurance measures and releasing software for users in the nuclear community. Bob has been working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for approximately ten years, where he has supported efforts in the US Department of Energy Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactor and Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation programs. Prior to that, Bob obtained his PhD in nuclear engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.
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Subchannel Methods Development for Modeling of Light-Water Reactors at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Robert Salko (ORNL), Belgacem Hizoum (ORNL), Vineet Kumar (ORNL), Aaron Wysocki, (ORNL), Aaron Graham (ORNL), David Kropaczek (ORNL), Mehdi Asgari (ORNL), Agustin Abarca (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Benjamin Collins (Veracity Nuclear)
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