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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
Technical Session
Friday, April 9, 2021|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT
Session Chair:
Ni Kan (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NCSU)
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Session Producers:
Arsen Iskhakov (NCSU)
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Design of the Mechanical Seal for the Sight Window used for an Advanced Visualization Instrument Working in a High-Pressure, High-Temperature Environment
Alberto Cardenas Melgar (University of Idaho), Colby B. Jensen (Idaho National Laboratory), Richard N. Christensen (University of Idaho)
Paper
Developing a Graphical User Interface to Measure O2- Concentration in Molten Fluoride Salts
Kirthi Kumar (SALT Group), Haley Williams (University of California - Berkeley), Raluca O. Scarlat (University of California Berkeley)
APNS: A Nuclear Power Plant Cybersecurity Testbed for Education and Research
Trentin D. Payne (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Fan Zhang (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
K-Nearest Neighbor Approach to Determine Data Injection Attack on Radiation Sensor in IoT Based Security System
Adam L. Hooker (University of Texas at San Antonio), Miltos Alamaniotis (University of Texas at San Antonio)
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