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Decommissioning & Environmental Sciences
The mission of the Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences (DES) Division is to promote the development and use of those skills and technologies associated with the use of nuclear energy and the optimal management and stewardship of the environment, sustainable development, decommissioning, remediation, reutilization, and long-term surveillance and maintenance of nuclear-related installations, and sites. The target audience for this effort is the membership of the Division, the Society, and the public at large.
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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|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Lander Ibarra (Argonne)
Alternate Chair:
Kevin R. Robb
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Janet Davis (American Nuclear Society)
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Flow Rate Estimation from Transient Temperature Response of a Forced Convection Molten Salt Test Facility
Ojasvin Arora (Texas A&M University), Se R. Yang (Texas A&M University), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University)
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Investigating the validity of the Boussinesq approximation on natural circulation of molten salt with internal heat source using OpenFOAM
DongHun Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Molten Salt Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger Fluid Dynamics
Nolan Goth (ORNL), Marilyn Delgado (Texas A&M University College Station), Trevor Kent Howard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kevin R. Robb (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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