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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
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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