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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Technical Session|Panel
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM EST|Coral B
Session Chair:
Marilyn Delgado (BWXT)
Session Organizers:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Jon D. McWhirter (TerraPower)
In recent years, the development and deployment of liquid metal reactors is accelerating as a promising solution to address decarbonization, diversified nuclear application and closed fuel cycle. The industry engagement task force of Thermal-Hydraulics Division is organizing a panel session to engage the nuclear industry to facilitate the development of liquid metal reactors. This panel will focus on the recent progresses and challenges in developing sodium cooled reactor and lead/LBE cooled reactor, fast neutron spectrum or thermal neutron spectrum. The panel topics include the design of reactor, the testing and the analysis supporting the development. Panelists come from well-established nuclear reactor developers, fast-growing startup companies, and industry-oriented organizations.
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