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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Matthew Bucknor (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
David S. Grabaskas
Session Organizer:
Andrew J. Clark
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (American Nuclear Society)
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Structures, Systems, and Components Classification Criteria for the Versatile Test Reactor
David S. Grabaskas (Argonne National Laboratory), Dennis W. Henneke (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy), Matthew Warner (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy), Jonathan Li (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy), Doug M. Gerstner (Idaho National Laboratory), Matthew D. Bucknor (Argonne National Laboratory), Jason P. Andrus (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Comparison of the NACOM Sodium Fire Code with the AB5 and AB6 Experiments
Matthew D. Bucknor (Argonne National Laboratory), Anton Moisseytsev (Argonne National Laboratory), James J. Sienicki (Argonne National Laboratory)
Comparison of the SOFIRE II Sodium Fire Code with the AB1 and F2 Experiments
Anton Moisseytsev (Argonne National Laboratory), Matthew D. Bucknor (Argonne National Laboratory), James J. Sienicki (Argonne National Laboratory)
Flame Sheet Model for Sodium Pool Burning
James J. Sienicki (Argonne National Laboratory)
Verification and Validation of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for the Versatile Test Reactor: RVACS
Thomas H. Fanning (Argonne National Laboratory), Lander Ibarra (Argonne National Laboratory), Daniel O'Grady (Argonne National Laboratory), Acacia J. Brunett (Argonne National Laboratory), Su-Jong Yoon (Idaho National Laboratory), Frederick N. Gleicher (Idaho National Laboratory), Nolan Anderson (Idaho National Laboratory), Carlo Parisi (Idaho National Laboratory)
