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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Ferry Roelofs
Alternate Chair:
Ran Kong (Purdue)
Session Organizer:
Dillon R. Shaver
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (American Nuclear Society)
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CFD Analyses of an ALFRED Fuel Assembly
Ferry Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), Akshat Mathur (NRG), Heleen Doolaard (NRG Arnhem)
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Preliminary Analysis of PCM Condenser Performance using CFD
Jai Oan Cho (KAIST), Hwa-Young Jung (KAIST), Sung G. Shin (KAIST), Jaehyung Sim (KAIST), Jeong Ik Lee (KAIST)
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Research on the CFD Scheme to Analyze the Sublimation of Uranium Hexafluoride
Tianyu Wang (Harbin Engineering University), Zhaofei Tian (Harbin Engineering University), Hao Yan (CNNC Xinneng Engineering Co., Ltd.), Chaoran Yang (CNNC Shaanxi Uranium Enrichment Co., Ltd.), Guangliang Chen (Harbin Engineering University)
Design and Analysis of the Priority-Ranking-RIF-CFD Scheme for PWR Core
Hao Qian (Harbin Engineering University), Guangliang Chen (Harbin Engineering University), Rui Ma (China Ship Development and Design Center)
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