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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technical Session|Special Topics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Columbia 2
Session Chair:
Nikoleta Morelova (IAEA)
Alternate Chair:
Marilyn Delgado (BWXT)
Session Organizer:
Kurshad Muftuoglu
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Flow Regime Classification Using Orientation-Independent Layered Spectral Clustering
3:30–3:50PM EDT
David Kang (Purdue), Drew Ryan (Purdue), Seungjin Kim (Purdue)
Paper
Preliminary Analysis of the Effects of Alumina Nanofluids on Critical Heat Flux Using Artificial Intelligence
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Bruno Pinheiro Serrao (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Application of Structure-Based Machine Learning Model on Thermal Striping Evaluation
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Yu-Jou Wang (MIT), Emilio Baglietto (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Reduced-Order Model of Flow Field in Nuclear Power System Based on POD and Deep Learning
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Jun Yang (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Yanping Huang (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Dianle Wang (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Ling Zhao (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Yong Li (Nuclear Power Institute of China)
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