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Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2021)
February 9–11, 2021
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Former NRC chairs issue vaccine timeline recommendation to CDC
Five former chairmen of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission—Stephen Burns, Allison Macfarlane, Nils Diaz, Richard Meserve, and Dale Klein—signed a letter to José Romero, Arkansas health secretary and chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) immunization advisory committee, requesting that the advisory committee update its recommendation for COVID-19 vaccine allocation guidance for the energy workforce (including nuclear energy workers).
Currently, the CDC has four phases for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Those phases are numbered:
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|1:40–3:20PM (2:40–4:20PM EST)
Session Chair:
Xiaodong Sun
Alternate Chair:
Minghui Chen
Session Organizer:
Brian G. Woods
Staff Producer:
Janet Davis (American Nuclear Society)
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Modelling Assessments of Water Pool Boiling Critical Heat Flux Experiments Under Power Transients
Mingfu He (University of New Mexico), Minghui Chen (University of New Mexico)
Summary
Numerical analysis of wall boiling considering bubble sliding and merge for heat flux partitioning on horizontal tube
Jae Soon Kim (Seoul National University), Hyoung Kyu Cho (Seoul National University)
Presentation Video
Experimental and Numerical analysis of single pump failure in a HLM Reactor
Philippe Planquart (Von Karman Institute), Katrien Van Tichelen (SCK-CEN)
Comparative Analysis for DNBR Between MARS-KS and CTF on the Core Flow Asymmetry
Il Suk Lee (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Dong H. Yoon (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Young S. Bang (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Kwang W. Seul (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Yong C. Kim (Korea University)
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