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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.
Educational Session|Panel|Sponsored by Plant Reliability
Tuesday, August 8, 2023|1:30–3:00PM EDT|Banyan 2
Knowledge Manager:
Cameron Khanpour
Where are we headed as an industry to ensure that plants are resilient to changing climate conditions and the increasing number of climate events impacting operations? This session will discuss climate resiliency topics including: where INPO is with development of their climate resiliency principles document, tools that EPRI has developed for utilities to begin assessing climate vulnerabilities, and approaches taken by utility and next steps to address vulnerabilities. Additionally, TVA will present a recent example of plant operation impacts due to eelgrass ingress caused by changing environmental conditions. Participants: TVA, [EPRI], [INPO], [Xcel]
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