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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technical Session|Severe Accidents
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Martina Adorni (NEA)
Alternate Chair:
Sanjeev Gupta
Session Organizer:
David L. Luxat
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Analysis of Hydrogen Diffusion Ignition in Oxygen-Nitrogen Mixtures
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Odai Nassar (Tel Aviv Univ.), Surya Kaundinya Oruganti (Tel Aviv Univ.), Marcel Martins Alves (Tel Aviv Univ.), Sergey Kudriakov (CEA), Etienne Studer (CEA), Liel Ishay (Nuclear Research Center Negev), Yoram Kozak (Tel Aviv Univ.)
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PANDA Experiment Addressing the Thermal Effects in a Large Water Pool Caused by Steam and a Lighter Non-condensable Gas Release from a Multi-Hole Sparger
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Domenico Paladino (Paul Scherrer Institute), Ralf Kapulla (Paul Scherrer Institute), Myeong Seon Chae (Paul Scherrer Institute), Sidharth Paranjape (Ostschweizer Fachhochschule), Guillaume Mignot (Oregon State), Pavel Kudinov (Royal Institute of Technology)
Recombination of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide on Silver-Based Zeolites in the Presence of Steam and at Pressures up to 3 Bar
9:40–10:00AM EDT
J. Mantzaras (Paul Scherrer Institute), V.K. Arumugam (Paul Scherrer Institute), J. Theile (Paul Scherrer Institute), D. Suckow (Paul Scherrer Institute), F. Espegren (Paul Scherrer Institute), T. Lind (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Experiments on the Impact of Carbon Monoxide on the Efficiency of Catalysts used for Hydrogen Mitigation in the Late Phase of a Severe Accident
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Ernst-Arndt Reinecke (Forschungszentrum Juelich), Gabriela Nobrega (IRSN), Michael Klauck (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
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