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Nuclear Installations Safety
Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Coral B
Session Chair:
Xingang Zhao (UTK)
Alternate Chair:
Xu Wu (NCSU)
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VOCAL: Validation, Optical Calibration and Learning Interactive Graphical Interface for Distributed Temperature Sensing in Advanced Reactors
10:00–10:20AM EST
Lauren Kohler (NCSU), Matthew Weathered (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Paper
The Use of Transfer Learning to Extend Critical Heat Flux Predictions
10:20–10:40AM EST
Aidan Furlong (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Multi-physics Modeling of Radiative Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow for the Reactor Cavity Cooling System
10:40–11:00AM EST
Sinan Okyay (Penn State), Victor Coppo Leite (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Paolo Balestra (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL)
Development of the CNN-Based Computer Vision Method for Pressure Field Reconstruction in Turbulent Channel Flow
11:00–11:20AM EST
Congshan Mao (University of Missouri, Columbia), Yue Jin (University of Missouri, Columbia)
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