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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Standards Program
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CFS working with NVIDIA, Siemens on SPARC digital twin
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a fusion firm headquartered in Devens, Mass., is collaborating with California-based computing infrastructure company NVIDIA and Germany-based technology conglomerate Siemens to develop a digital twin of its SPARC fusion machine. The cooperative work among the companies will focus on applying artificial intelligence and data- and project-management tools as the SPARC digital twin is developed.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|12:15–2:00PM EST
Session Chair:
Jun Wang (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Alternate Chair:
Yuqiao "Joy" Fan (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Igor A. Bolotnov
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (American Nuclear Society)
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MELCOR Modeling of a 350 MWt Small Modular Reactor
Yukun Zhou (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Jun Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Yapei Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
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CFD Simulations of the Sodium Cartridge Loop of the Versatile Test Reactor
Zhengting Quan (Purdue University), Ran Kong (Purdue University), Adam J. Dix (Purdue University), Seungjin Kim (Purdue University), Mamoru Ishii (Purdue University), Mitchell T. Farmer (Argonne National Laboratory)
CFD Thermal Analysis over a Narrow Channel for the Investigation of the PCM Solidification Criteria
Yonadan Choi (KAIST), Yong Hoon Jeong (KAIST)
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