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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
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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