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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC approves TerraPower construction permit
Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has approved TerraPower’s construction permit application for Kemmerer Unit 1, the company’s first deployment of Natrium, its flagship sodium fast reactor.
This approval is a significant milestone on three fronts. For TerraPower, it represents another step forward in demonstrating its technology. For the Department of Energy, it reflects progress (despite delays) for the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). For the NRC, it is the first approval granted to a commercial reactor in nearly a decade—and the first approval of a commercial non–light water reactor in more than 40 years.
Technical Session|Fundamental Thermal Hydraulics
Thursday, August 24, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Columbia 2
Session Chair:
Roberto Capanna
Alternate Chair:
Philippe M. Bardet
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Natural Convection Heat Transfer with Molten Salt in a Differentially-Heated Cavity
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Noah LeFrancois (McGill Univ.), Jovan Nedic (McGill Univ.), Melanie Tetreault-Friend (Hatch)
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A Study of Laminar-Turbulent Transition in Rod Bundles
11:05–11:25AM EDT
L. C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State), C. Bourdot Dutra (Penn State), S. P. Bistany (Penn State), E. Merzari (Penn State)
Zero-Emission Mobile Carbon Capture Facility Powered By Decay Heat of Nuclear Spent Fuels
11:25–11:45AM EDT
Muyue Li (Univ. Michigan), Zhenyu Fei (Univ. Michigan), Kunzhe Bao (Univ. Michigan), Boren Ke (Univ. Michigan), Xiaodong Sun (Univ. Michigan), Lumin Wang (Univ. Michigan)
Mechanistic Modeling of Interfacial Area Transport for Vertical Round Pipes over Wide Range of Pipe Diameters
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Zhuoran Dang (Univ. Calgary), Mamoru Ishii (Purdue), Yang Zhao (Purdue)
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