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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC staff proposes ROP, security inspection overhauls
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is recommending proposed changes for the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) baseline inspection program that could reduce the number of hours spent annually on direct inspections at U.S. nuclear power plants by 38 percent.
In addition to the proposed ROP changes, NRC staff published recommendations for the baseline security program that would reduce the number of direct inspection hours necessary for this program by about 50 percent compared to current levels. This includes the Force-on-Force (FOF) inspection program.
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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