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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.
UWC 2022 speaker
Luca Ceccato is currently the Vice President of the Darlington Nuclear Refurbishment project. He started as an I&C Technician in the Maintenance field at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station. He has progressed into various leadership roles and most notably as the Darlington Station Maintenance Manager. During this tenure, he oversaw the department being the first Canadian Maintenance organization to achieve an Exemplary status.
Luca is also on the Board of Directors of the Electrical Power Systems Construction Association.
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