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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Technical Session|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Sunming Qin (INL)
Alternate Chair:
W. David Pointer (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Primary Coolant Apparatus Test (PCAT): An Experimental Facility for MARVEL Microreactor
9:00–9:20AM EDT
C. Parisi (INL), S. Yoon (INL), C. Baily (INL), B. Grover (INL), Y. Arafat (INL), S.J. Kim (LANL)
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Scaling Analysis of a Separate Effects Test Facility for Thermal Performance Investigations of Heat Transfer Enhancements for Molten Salt Applications
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Connor F. Donlan (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Multi-Physics Safety Assessment of Core Thermal-Hydraulics Under Loss-of-Coolant Accident and Reactivity Initiated Accident
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Sang-Ki Moon (KAERI), Jongrok Kim (KAERI), Yong-Seok Choi (KAERI), Jae Bong Lee (KAERI), Kihwan Kim (KAERI), Byong Guk Jeon (KAERI), Seok Kim (KAERI), Hyun-Sik Park (KAERI)
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