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Waste Management 2024: The symposia at 50
This year marked the 50th anniversary of Waste Management Symposia’s Waste Management Conference, held March 10–14 in Phoenix, Ariz. The event has grown significantly since the first Waste Management Conference in 1974, which attracted about 200 attendees. This year’s conference saw a record attendance of around 3,300 people from more than 20 different countries and boasted 235 technical sessions and 89 exhibitors.
Technical Session|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Yue Jin (UM)
Alternate Chair:
Saya Lee (PSU)
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Coal Experiments Investigating the Reflooding of a 7 X 7 Rods Bundle During a Loss of Coolant Accident -- Effect of a Partially Blocked Area with Ballooned Rods
9:00–9:20AM EDT
G. Repetto (IRSN), Q. Grando (IRSN), B. Bruyère (IRSN), S. Eymery (IRSN), R. Fortman (STERN Laboratories), R. Van Lochem (STERN Laboratories)
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Experimental Investigation of Minimum Film Boiling Temperature During Reflood Transients
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Turki K. Almudhhi (Penn State), Douglas J. Miller (Penn State), Grant R. Garrett (Penn State), Ian R. Lowery (Penn State), Fan-Bill Cheung (Penn State), Brian R. Lowery (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)
Spray Cooling of a Rod Bundle with a Counter-Current Steam Flow in Spent Fuel Pool Conditions
9:40–10:00AM EDT
G. Brillant (IRSN)
Uniform and Non-Uniform Flows Through a PWR-Type Rod Bundle with Mixing Grids at Reynolds Number Ranging from 800 up to 70000: Pressure Loss Measurements
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Clément Melin (CEA), Gilles Bernard-Michel (CEA), Benjamin Cariteau (CEA), Philippe Fillion (CEA)
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