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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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ANS holds Educator Training webinar on nuclear waste
Loewen
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|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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