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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Technical Session|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Monday, August 21, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Jun Wang (TerraPower)
Alternate Chair:
Minghui Chen
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Performance Analysis of Water Heat Pipe for Application of the Passive Cooling System in Nuclear Power Plants
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Ye Yeong Park (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
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Experimental Investigation of Heat Pipe Flow Dynamics and Performance
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Ilyas Yilgor (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Shanbin Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Experimental Study on the Start-up of the Annular Wick Type Heat Pipe Using Fiber Optical Temperature Measurement Technique
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Joseph Seo (TAMU), Hansol Kim (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
Experimental Study on the Characteristics of Thermal Interaction Between Liquid Metal with Water
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Lin Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Chang Deng (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiaojing Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
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