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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Researchers use one-of-a-kind expertise and capabilities to test fuels of tomorrow
At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Technical Session|New and Advanced Reactors
Monday, August 21, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Ferry Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group)
Alternate Chair:
Rui Hu (ANL)
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NekRS CFD Simulations of Interassembly Flow in Sodium Fast Reactors
3:30–3:50PM EDT
A.J. Novak (ANL), C. Bourdot Dutra (Penn State), D. Shaver (ANL), E. Merzari (Penn State)
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Flow Decomposition and Reconstruction Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for a Porous Blocked Subchannel in a 61-Pin Wire-Wrapped Fuel Assembly
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Craig Menezes (TAMU), Matthew Kinsky (TAMU), Trevor Melsheimer (TAMU), Dalton Pyle (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
RANS Simulations of Jet Flow and Thermal Stratification Phenomena in the TALL-3D Facility Subjected to Different Flow Regimes
4:10–4:30PM EDT
M.M.M.D. Hussain (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), H.J. Uitslag-Doolaard (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), F. Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), X. Huang (Univ. Sheffield), S. He (Univ. Sheffield)
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Mixing in Wire-Wrapped Fuel Assembly of Liquid Lead-Bismuth-Cooled Fast Reactor
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Sipeng Wang (Nanjing Univ. Aeronautics and Astronautics), Qindong Zhang (Nanjing Univ. Aeronautics and Astronautics), Bao-Wen Yang (DEQD Institute for Advanced Research in Multiphase Flow and Energy Transfer)
Presentation Video (Visible to Attendees) — Pre-recorded presentation of Sipeng Wang
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