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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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Deep Fission raises $30M in financing
Since the Department of Energy kicked off a 10-company race with its Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program to bring test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, the industry has been waiting for new headlines proclaiming progress. Aalo Atomics broke ahead of the pack first by announcing last week that it had broken ground on its 50-MWe Aalo-X at Idaho National Laboratory.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, November 16, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Donna P. Guillen
Alternate Chair:
Xiaodong Sun (Univ. of Michigan)
Session Organizer:
Kurshad Muftuoglu
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (American Nuclear Society)
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Numerical simulation of the flow through a randomly packed pebble bed with small bed-to-pebble diameter ratio
Mustafa Alper Yildiz (Texas A&M University), Elia Merzari (Pennsylvania State University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University)
Paper
Validation of Turbulence Models for Heat Transfer Predictions for Low-Pr Flows
Elia Merzari (Penn State Univ.), Aleksandr V. Obabko (ANL), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.), Keith Walters (University of Oklahoma), Shanti Bushan (Mississippi State University), W. D. Jock (University of Oklahoma), Giacomo Busco (Texas A&M Univ.), Mohammed El Mellouki (Mississippi State University)
Experimentally Developed Recommendations to Improve Existing Coarse Aerosol Deposition Models
Rohan Milind Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Tevfik Gemci (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical LLC)
A Numerical Verification of Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer Models in OpenFOAM and STARCCM+
Adrian Tentner (Argonne National Laboratory), Landon M. Brockmeyer (Argonne National Laboratory), Haomin Yuan (Argonne National Laboratory), Dezhi Dai (ANL)
CFD Simulations on a hexagonal 61-pin wire-wrapped fuel bundle with STARCCM+ and comparison with experimental data.
Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University), Mustafa A. Yildiz (Texas A&M University), Octavio Bovati (Texas A&M University)
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