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Fusion Energy
This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Alternate Chair:
Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Session Organizer:
Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (American Nuclear Society)
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Verification of Transient Simulations Using the SAS4A/SASSYS-1 Coupled Channel Interface
Daniel O'Grady (Argonne National Laboratory), Guanheng Zhang (Argonne National Laboratory), Thomas H. Fanning (Argonne National Laboratory), Rui Hu (Argonne National Laboratory), Guojun Hu (Argonne National Laboratory), Thanh Q. Hua (Argonne National Laboratory), Acacia J. Brunett (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Joint SAS4A/SASSYS-1 Development for Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Safety Analysis
Anton Moisseytsev (ANL), Thomas H. Fanning (ANL), Daniel O’Grady (ANL), Thanh Quoc Hua (ANL), Adrian M. Tentner (ANL), Aydin Karahan (ANL), Acacia J. Brunett (ANL), Tanju Sofu (ANL), Michael Epstein (Fauske & Associates, LLC), Sung Jin Lee (Fauske & Associates, LLC), Daniel L. Wise (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Company)
Implementation of an Extended Reactor Vessel Heat Rejection Modeling Capability in SAS4A/SASSYS-1
Thomas H. Fanning (Argonne National Laboratory), Acacia J. Brunett (Argonne National Laboratory), Daniel O'Grady (Argonne National Laboratory)
NekRS: Massively parallel fluid flow simulations in reactor cores
Elia Merzari (Pennsylvania State University), Misun Min (Argonne National Laboratory), Yu-Hsiang Lan (Argonne National Laboratory), Stefan Kerkemeier (Argonne National Laboratory), Paul Fischer (University of Illinois)
Statistical Uncertainties of Passive Scalars in a Direct Numerical Simulation of Low-Prandtl Fluid Flow over a Backward Facing Step
Iztok Tiselj (Jožef Stefan Institute), Jure Oder (Jozef Stefan Institut)
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