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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
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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