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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
Technical Session|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Jean-Marie Le Corre
Alternate Chair:
Yue Jin
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Reflood Thermal-Hydraulics Testing Using the NRC-PSU Rod Bundle Heat Transfer (RBHT) Test Facility
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Brian R. Lowery (Penn State), Molly K. Hanson (Penn State), Grant R. Garrett (Penn State), Douglas J. Miller (Penn State), Turki Almudhhi (Penn State), Fan-Bill Cheung (Penn State), Stephen M. Bajorek (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Kirk Tien (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Chris L. Hoxie (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
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Towards a Better Understanding of Reflood Thermal-Hydraulics: A Summary of the OECD/NEA RBHT Project
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Stephen M. Bajorek (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Brian Lowery (Penn State), Fan-Bill Cheung (Penn State), Alessandro Del Ferraro (NINE), Marco Cherubini (NINE), Alessandro Petruzzi (NINE), Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel Engineering), Martina Adorni (OECD/NEA)
METERO-V and PRIUS Experimental Programs: Complementary Separate Effects Tests for Core Mixing Validation
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Philippe Fillion (CEA), Seok Kim (KAERI), Clément Melin (CEA), Gilles Bernard-Michel (CEA), Benjamin Cariteau (CEA), Kyoung-Ho Kang (KAERI)
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