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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NEA report calls for more accurate data on SNF heat decay
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has issued a report calling for more-detailed information on tracking the decay heat of spent nuclear fuel from light water reactors. According to the NEA, the report highlights the increasing importance of accurate decay heat estimations due to evolving fuel characteristics, including higher initial fuel enrichment, increased burn-up rates, and extended reactor cycle lengths.
The report, Summary of the NEA Assessment on Spent Nuclear Fuel Decay Heat for Light Water Reactors, summarizes the findings of a subgroup of the NEA’s Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS), which ran from January 2022 to January 2024.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Coral B
Session Chair:
Izabela Gutowska (OSU)
Alternate Chair:
Matthew Jasica (ANL)
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Reactor Vessel Cooling System for the GA-EMS Fast Modular Reactor: Scaled Experiments and Analysis
10:00–10:20AM EST
S.K. Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), I. Jentz (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), W.H. Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), B. Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), H. Choi (General Atomics), J. Bolin (General Atomics)
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Development of an Improved RELAP5-3D Model for the High Temperature Test Facility
10:20–10:40AM EST
Robert F. Kile (INL), Aaron S. Epiney (INL)
Effects of Upper Chimney Throttling on Two-Phase Flow in a Large-Scale Water-Based RCCS
10:40–11:00AM EST
Matthew J. Jasica (ANL), Qiuping Lv (ANL), Darius D. Lisowski (ANL), Mitch Farmer (ANL)
Effect of Water Tank Inlet Elevation on Performance of a Large Scale Water-Based RCCS
11:00–11:20AM EST
Qiuping Lv (ANL), Matthew Jasica (ANL), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Mitch Farmer (ANL)
Contact Thermal Resistance Modeling for Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulations in Gas-Cooled Pebble Bed Reactors
11:20–11:40AM EST
Dezhi Dai (ANL), Haomin Yuan (ANL), Prasad Vegendla (ANL), Adrian Tentner (ANL)
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