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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS Winter Conference: DOE, NRC leaders stress need for speedier nuclear approval
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Chris Wright
During speeches at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference & Expo, happening this week in Washington, D.C., Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair David Wright both promised that the Trump administration will speed up nuclear reviews so the U.S. can maintain leadership in nuclear energy.
The DOE’s Wright took a stab at the NRC’s traditionally slow bureaucratic processes in approving primarily large light water reactors in the past, saying that the agency needs to speed up to meet the greater demand for new small modular reactors.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Coral A
Session Chair:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Victor Habiyaremye (NRG)
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Improved Heat Transfer Modeling in a Channel Flow with Rough Surfaces Using Wall Functions
10:00–10:20AM EST
V. Habiyaremye (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), A Math.ur (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), F. Roelofs (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), J.W.R. Peeters (Delft Univ. Technology)
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Pressure-Corrected Wall Functions for the k - τ RANS Model in Nek5000
10:20–10:40AM EST
Nadish Saini (ANL), Ananias Tomboulides (Aristotle Univ., Thessaloniki), Dillon Shaver (ANL), Aleksandr Obabko (ANL)
Numerical Investigation of Turbulent Flow Through an Orifice Plate at $Re \approx 10^6$: A RANS-Based Methodology for Predicting Discharge Coefficients with ISO 5167 Uncertainty
10:40–11:00AM EST
Pascal Borel (EDF), Sofiane Benhamadouche (EDF), Didier Boldo (EDF)
Free Surface Steam-Interface Heat Transfer Model with a Wall Function that takes Roughness into Account
11:00–11:20AM EST
Bruno Raverdy (CEA)
URANS Computations of Nakamura et al. Dead Branch Configuration -- Evaluation of the Velocity Field Predictions
11:20–11:40AM EST
Sofiane Benhamadouche (EDF)
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