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NRC’s David Wright visits the Hill and more NRC news
Wright
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the spotlight today for three very different reasons. First, NRC Chair David Wright was on Capitol Hill yesterday for his renomination hearing in front of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Second, the NRC released its updated milestone schedules according to the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) and the executive orders signed by President Trump last month; and third, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday, 28 former NRC officials have condemned the dismissal of Commissioner Hanson earlier this month.
Renomination: EPW Committee chair Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) opened the hearing with a statement praising Wright’s experience and emphasized the urgency of stable leadership at the NRC.
“China is executing a rapid build-out of its nuclear industry,” Capito said. “The demand for clean, baseload power is skyrocketing as we position America to win the AI race.”
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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