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ANS holds Educator Training webinar on nuclear waste
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Perfetti
A recent American Nuclear Society webinar tackled misconceptions about nuclear waste. Christopher Perfetti, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at the University of New Mexico, presented “The How, Why, and Where of Nuclear Waste,” the latest online event in ANS’s Educator Training series.
Moderated by ANS past president Eric Loewen (2011–12), this presentation was built to be an accessible and informative Nuclear Waste 101 offering as part of the Society’s broader effort to develop a program specifically tailored to educating K-12 teachers.
Technical Session|New and Advanced Reactors
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Alternate Chair:
Piyush Sabharwall
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Investigation of Hybrid Heat Pipe Shutdown Rod Concept of Microreactor as a Passive Safety System
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Dong Hun Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
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Thermal Stress Analysis for Heat Pipe Cooled Microreactor Core Varying Condenser Temperature
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Myung Jin Jeong (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), San Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Jaeuk Im (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Hyoung Kyu Cho (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Experimental Study on the Start-up Characteristics and Performance of a Ten Sodium Heat Pipe Bundle Array
11:25–11:45AM EDT
Pei-Hsun Huang (Univ. Michigan), Taehwan Ahn (Univ. Michigan), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan), Victor Petrov (Univ. Michigan)
Nuclear Spaceship for Interplanetary Cruise Using a Micro Fast Reactor
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Tadashi Narabayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Study on Startup Characteristic of a Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycle Coupled with Heat Pipe Cooled Reactor
12:05–12:25PM EDT
Zheng Wang (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Minghui Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Shihao Xu (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Junli Gou (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Jianqiang Shan (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.)
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