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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
Technical Session
Friday, April 9, 2021|2:30–4:30PM EDT
Session Chair:
David Holler (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NCSU)
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Session Producers:
Anthony Alberti (OSU)
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Preliminary Analysis of APR1400 Benchmark with MPACT
Kaitlyn E. Barr (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan)
Paper
Implementation of the SP3 Equations in a MOOSE-based Application
Roberto Fairhurst Agosta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kathryn D. Huff (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Effects of the Location and Composition of Burnable Absorber in Fuel Assemblies of a WWER-1200 Reactor on the Campaign Parameters
Mariia Levon (Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering), Ruslan Vnukov (Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering), Valery Kolesov (Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering)
Graphite Moderated Sub-Critical Summary
Jerod W. Warren (United States Military Academy (West Point)), Collin R. Combs (United States Military Academy), Adrian Garlant (United States Military Academy)
Adjoint Solution of Time-dependent Multigroup Diffusion Model with Generalized Temporal and Spatial Boundary Conditions
Tao Liu (Virginia Commonwealth University), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University)
PWR Core Loading Pattern Optimization with Reinforcement Learning
Paul R. Seurin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)), Koroush Shirvan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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