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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Waste Management 2024: The symposia at 50
This year marked the 50th anniversary of Waste Management Symposia’s Waste Management Conference, held March 10–14 in Phoenix, Ariz. The event has grown significantly since the first Waste Management Conference in 1974, which attracted about 200 attendees. This year’s conference saw a record attendance of around 3,300 people from more than 20 different countries and boasted 235 technical sessions and 89 exhibitors.
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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