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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC approves TerraPower construction permit
Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has approved TerraPower’s construction permit application for Kemmerer Unit 1, the company’s first deployment of Natrium, its flagship sodium fast reactor.
This approval is a significant milestone on three fronts. For TerraPower, it represents another step forward in demonstrating its technology. For the Department of Energy, it reflects progress (despite delays) for the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). For the NRC, it is the first approval granted to a commercial reactor in nearly a decade—and the first approval of a commercial non–light water reactor in more than 40 years.
Technical Session|Special Topics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Columbia 5-8
Session Chair:
Han Bao
Alternate Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh
Session Organizer:
Kurshad Muftuoglu
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Prediction of Departure from Nucleate Boiling Power Using ANN and PIML Algorithms
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Chaitee Godbole (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Upendra Rohatgi (Brookhaven)
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Deep Generative Modeling for Augmentation of the Steady-State Void Fraction Dataset in the BFBT Benchmark
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Farah Alsafadi (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Data-Driven RANS Turbulence Modeling of Mixed Convection in Reactor Downcomer Geometry
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Arsen S. Iskhakov (NCSU), Cheng-Kai Tai (NCSU), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU), Nam T. Dinh (NCSU), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Data-Driven Augmentation of a Second Order Heat Flux Model to Extend it to Heavy Liquid Metals
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Matilde Fiore (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Lilla Koloszar (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Miguel Alfonso Mendez (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Matthieu Duponcheel (Univ. Catholique de Louvain), Yann Bartosiewicz (Univ. Catholique de Louvain)
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