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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Fundamental Thermal Hydraulics
Monday, August 21, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Columbia 2
Session Chair:
Antonio Cammi
Alternate Chair:
Philippe Planquart
Session Organizer:
Philippe M. Bardet
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Two Scale Two-Flux Model for Density Wave and Slug Flow Instabilities
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Alejandro Clausse (Purdue), Alexander Lopez-de-Bertodano (Univ. Chicago), Martin Lopez-de-Bertodano (Purdue)
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Gas Ingress During Side Vessel Break: Experiments and Numerical Simulations with a Simplified Pool-Type Scaled Water Model
3:50–4:10PM EDT
M. Faruoli (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), M. Delsipee (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Ph. Planquart (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), G. Scheveneels (SCK CEN), B. Yamaji (SCK CEN)
Vapor Pressure and Temperature Analyses on a Gravity-Assisted Wrapped Screen Wick Annular Heat Pipe
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Daniel Orea (TAMU), N.K. Anand (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
Experimental Investigation of Two-Phase Pressure Drop and Flow Regime Visualization in Chevron-Type Plate Heat Exchangers
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Stefano Passoni (Politecnico di Milano), Riccardo Mereu (Politecnico di Milano), Stefano Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano), Fabio Inzoli (Politecnico di Milano), Marco Enrico Ricotti (Politecnico Di Milano)
Study on the Effect of Length to Diameter Ratio on Critical Flow Based on RELAP5/MOD3.3 Simulations
4:50–5:10PM EDT
Wenda Liu (North China Univ. Electric Power), Xinguo Yu (North China Univ. Electric Power)
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