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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Amazon provides update on its Washington project with X-energy
A year ago this month, Amazon led a $500 million investment in X-energy, alongside Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the University of Michigan, and other investors. In addition to that financing, Amazon pledged to support the development of an initial four-unit, 320-MW project with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Coral A
Session Chair:
Sofiane Benhamadouche (EDF)
Alternate Chair:
Jun Fang (ANL)
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Nucleation Site Interactions in High-Fidelity Pool Boiling Simulations
3:15–3:35PM EST
Anna Iskhakova (NCSU), Om Jagtap (NCSU), Nam T. Dinh (NCSU), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
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Turbulent to Laminar Flow Transition Study in Parallel Plate Geometry Using Direct Numerical Simulation
3:35–3:55PM EST
Alexey Burbasov (NCSU), Tri Nguyen (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
CFD Simulation of Flow Distribution in Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Lower Plenum
3:55–4:15PM EST
Jun Fang (ANL), Dillon Shaver (ANL), Tingzhou Fei (ANL)
Validation of DNB Prediction Capability of STAR-CCM+ Eulerian-Eulerian Multiphase Flow Model Under Inclined Conditions for Floating Nuclear Power Plant
4:15–4:35PM EST
Giwon Bae (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Hyoung kyu Cho (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Computational Analysis of Molten Salt Freeze Valves with STAR-CCM+
4:35–4:55PM EST
Anutam Bairagi (Univ. New Mexico), Minghui Chen (Univ. New Mexico)
Comparing Fidelity of RANS Turbulence Closures for Modeling Buoyant Jets Under Thermal Stratification
4:55–5:05PM EST
Som Dutta (Utah State), Anton Kadomtsev (Utah State), Mauricio Tano (INL), Izabela Gutowska (Oregon State), Paul Fischer (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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