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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Join ANS for a webinar on exploring background radiation
The American Nuclear Society, in partnership with the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, is hosting its next Educator Training event, “K-12 Classroom Investigations: Exploring Background Radiation,” this Thursday, May 16, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. (EDT).
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Technical Session|New and Advanced Reactors
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Columbia 2
Session Chair:
Mauricio Tano (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Lambert Fick (Kairos)
Session Organizer:
Rui Hu
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Design and Construction of an Integral-Effect Test Facility FLUSTFA for Molten Salt Reactor Applications
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Sheng Zhang (Univ. Michigan), Hsun-Chia Lin (Univ. Michigan), Minghui Chen (Univ. Michigan), Shanbin Shi (Univ. Michigan), Shuai Che (Univ. Michigan), Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Xiaodong Sun (Univ. Michigan), Qiuping Lv (ANL)
Paper
Initial Operation of a High-Temperature Fluoride Salt Test Facility (FLUSTFA): Issues Identified and Paths Forward
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Sheng Zhang (Univ. Michigan), Shuai Che (Univ. Michigan), Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Xiaodong Sun (Univ. Michigan)
Design of a Natural Circulation Experiment to Investigate Flow Stability
11:25–11:45AM EDT
J.S. Narvaez Arrua (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), P. Rubiolo (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), J. Giraud (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), V. Ghetta (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), A. Cammi (Politecnico di Milano), S. Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano)
Flow-Informed Corrosion in Molten Salts Using the Poisson-Nernst-Planck Model
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
M. Tano (INL), S. Walker (INL), A. Abou-Jaoude (INL)
Fuel Flow Modeling Under Thermal Fluidics Considerations Within Operational Domains of Molten Salt Reactors
12:05–12:25PM EDT
Thabit M. Abuqudaira (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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