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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Ling Zou
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Matthew D. Zimmer
Staff Producer:
Pat Schroeder (American Nuclear Society)
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Momentum Source Modeling of Spacer Grid and Mixing Vanes in Small Modular Reactors
Jun Fang (Argonne National Laboratory), Dillon R. Shaver (Argonne National Laboratory), Elia Merzari (Pennsylvania State University)
Paper
Lateral flow characterizations in a 5x5 rod bundle with spacer grid
Camila Freitas Matozinhos (Texas A&M University), Gabriel Caio Queiroz Tomaz (Texas A&M University), Thien Nguyen (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University)
On The Effect of The Aspect Ratio on The Stability of Single-phase Rectangular Thermosiphons
Tri Nguyen (The Pennsylvania State University), Elia Merzari (The Pennsylvania State University)
1D Fixed Flux Two-Fluid Model For Vertical Adiabatic Slug Flow
Krishna Chetty (Purdue University), Alejandro Clausse (CNEA-CONICET and National University of Central Buenos Aires), Martin A. Lopez de Bertodano (Purdue University)
Subchannel Mass Transfer Analysis of a 5 x 5 Rod Bundle Using PIV and Matching of Index of Refraction
Gabriel Caio Queiroz Tomaz (Texas A&M University), Camila Freitas Matozinhos (Texas A&M University), Duy-Thien Nguyen (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University)
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