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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Dragonfly, a Pu-fueled drone heading to Titan, gets key NASA approval
Curiosity landed on Mars sporting a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in 2012, and a second NASA rover, Perseverance, landed in 2021. Both are still rolling across the red planet in the name of science. Another exploratory craft with a similar plutonium-238–fueled RTG but a very different mission—to fly between multiple test sites on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon—recently got one step closer to deployment.
On April 25, NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) announced that the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s icy moon passed its critical design review. “Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly’s mission design, fabrication, integration, and test plans are all approved, and the mission can now turn its attention to the construction of the spacecraft itself,” according to NASA.
Technical Session|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Yue Jin
Alternate Chair:
Jean-Marie Le Corre
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Initial Characterization of Observed Dispersion and Relocation Phenomena During a Loss of Coolant Accident (LOCA)
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Sade Danielle Campos (Oregon State), Trevor Kent Howard (Oregon State), Grant Hendrickson (Oregon State), Aaron Weiss (Oregon State), Guillaume Mignot (Oregon State), Wade Marcum (Oregon State)
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Comparison Between High-Resolution Gamma-ray Tomography and Wire-Mesh Sensor for Air-Water Flow in a Rod Bundle Geometry
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Taehwan Ahn (Univ. Michigan), Victor Petrov (Univ. Michigan), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan)
Flow Visualization of a Prototypical Helical Coil Bundle Section Undergoing Flow Induced Vibration
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Noah Sutton (TAMU), Blake R. Maher (TAMU), Rodolfo Vaghetto (TAMU), Yassin Hassan (TAMU)
Experimental Investigation on Distribution of Boric Acid in a Vertical 1x2 Rod Array Channel
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Long Ji (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiaojing Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Hui He (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
Presentation Video (Visible to Attendees) — long Ji+40864+Experimental investigation on distribution of boric acid in a vertical 1×2 rod array channel
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