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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Standards Program
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What’s the most difficult question you’ve been asked as a maintenance instructor?
Blye Widmar
"Where are the prints?!"
This was the final question in an onslaught of verbal feedback, comments, and critiques I received from my students back in 2019. I had two years of instructor experience and was teaching a class that had been meticulously rehearsed in preparation for an accreditation visit. I knew the training material well and transferred that knowledge effectively enough for all the students to pass the class. As we wrapped up, I asked the students how they felt about my first big system-level class, and they did not hold back.
“Why was the exam from memory when we don’t work from memory in the plant?” “Why didn’t we refer to the vendor documents?” “Why didn’t we practice more on the mock-up?” And so on.
Technical Session|New and Advanced Reactors
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Piyush Sabharwall
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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Convective Heat Transfer Characteristics Within a Shipping Container Transporting a Micro-HTGR
1:30–1:50PM EDT
T-Ying Lin (Purdue), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Richard Schultz (Idaho State)
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Development of Design Basis Safety Analysis Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table for the eVinci Microreactor
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Michael J. Patterson (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Megan E. Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), William Brown (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Richard F. Wright (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Benchmark Studies of the MOOSE-Based Sockeye and BISON Codes for the eVinci Heat Pipe Microreactor
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Michael A. Shockling (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Megan E. Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Liping Cao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), John Lojek III (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Rory A.F. Blunt (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
CFD Thermal Analysis of eVinci™ Microreactor -- Integrating Reactor Core and Primary Heat Exchanger
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Hong Xu (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Liping Cao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Presented by Michael Patterson (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Size Assessment of the Heat Exchanger for He-Xe Closed Brayton Cycle Applied in Mobile, Land-Based Microreactor System
2:50–3:10PM EDT
Chaoran Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiang Chai (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Tengfei Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiaojing Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
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