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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Join ANS for a webinar on exploring background radiation
The American Nuclear Society, in partnership with the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, is hosting its next Educator Training event, “K-12 Classroom Investigations: Exploring Background Radiation,” this Thursday, May 16, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. (EDT).
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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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