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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|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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