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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technical Session|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Guanyi Wang (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Development of a High-Prandtl Number Heat Transfer Correlation in the Near-Wall Region of a Pebble Bed
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Sade Campos (Kairos Power), Griffen Latimer (Kairos Power), Seth Cadell (Kairos Power)
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Development of an Integral Effects Test Facility for the Kairos Power Fluoride High-Temperature Reactor
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Griffen Latimer (Kairos Power), Floren Rubio (Kairos Power), Seth Cadell (Kairos Power), Craig Gerardi (Kairos Power), David Sprinkle (Kairos Power), Eric Johnson (Kairos Power), Keith Johnson (Kairos Power)
Experimental Investigation of the Effect of RCIC Steam Exhaust Line Design on Suppression Pool Thermal Stratification
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Kenneth Fossum (TAMU), Dallin Keesling (TAMU), Johnathan Smalley (TAMU), Karen Vierow Kirkland (TAMU)
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