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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
Technical Session|Computational Thermal Hydraulics
Monday, August 21, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Columbia 9/10
Session Chair:
Nadish Saini
Alternate Chair:
Lane B. Carasik
Session Organizer:
Igor A. Bolotnov
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CFD Simulations of Flow Mixing Phenomenon in a Gas-Cooled Reactor Outlet Plenum
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Jun Fang (ANL), Thanh Hua (ANL), Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL)
Paper
Comparison of Sodium Stratification in CFD to Experimental Data from the Thermal Hydraulic Experimental Test Article
1:50–2:10PM EDT
James McCay (Oklo), Olorunsola Akinsulire (Oklo), Isaac Dabkowski (Oklo Inc.), Pat Everett (Oklo Inc.), Matthew Weathered (ANL), Dan O'Grady (ANL), Lander Ibarra (ANL), Christopher Grandy (ANL)
CFD Simulations of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor
2:10–2:30PM EDT
François Martin (CEA), Guillaume Campioni (CEA), André Bergeron (CEA), Yannick Gorsse (CEA), Elsa Merle (CNRS), Antoine Gerschenfeld (CEA)
Large Eddy Simulations of Hot Helium Issued into Cold Ambient Relevant to Pipe-Break Accident of High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors (HTGRs)
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Jundi He (Univ. Sheffield), Bo Liu (Science and Technology Facilities Council), Shuisheng He (Univ. Sheffield)
CFD Study of a Helium Jet and Resulting Gas Mixing in a Model HTGR Cavity
2:50–3:10PM EDT
B. Liu (STFC Daresbury Laboratory), J. He (Univ. Sheffield), S. He (Univ. Sheffield), C. Moulinec (STFC Daresbury Laboratory), J. Uribe (EDF Energy)
Presented by Kenneth Chinembiri (Univ. Sheffield)
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