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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections
Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050—reaching 2.6 times the 2024 level—with small modular reactors expected to play a pivotal role in this high-case scenario.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi announced the new projections, contained in the annual report Energy, Electricity, and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2050 at the 69th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
In the report’s high-case scenario, nuclear electrical generating capacity is projected to increase to from 377 GW at the end of 2024 to 992 GW by 2050. In a low-case scenario, capacity rises 50 percent, compared with 2024, to 561 GW. SMRs are projected to account for 24 percent of the new capacity added in the high case and for 5 percent in the low case.
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)
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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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