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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The newest era of workforce development at ANS
As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Advanced Modeling Applications
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Zeses Karoutas (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
Andrew Godfrey (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
William Dawn (NC State Univ.)
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Evaluation of VERA Transient Capability for Analyzing PWR Control Rod Ejection Accident
Vefa N. Kucukboyaci (Westinghouse Electric Company)
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CTF Improvements through the CFD-Informed Sub-Channel Hi2Lo Process
Emre Tatli (Westinghouse Electric Company), Yixing Sung (Westinghouse Electric Company), Robert K. Salko (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
CASL VERA Applications to Departure from Nucleate Boiling Challenge Problem
Yixing Sung (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC), Vefa N. Kucukboyaci (Westinghouse Electric Company), Yiban Xu (Westinghouse Electric Company), Robert K. Salko (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Neutronics and CRUD Analyses of the NuScale Small Modular Reactor
Travis Lange (Idaho National Laboratory), Azat Galimov (NuScale Power LLC), Jim Eller (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kenny Epperson (Epperson Engineering), Andrew Godfrey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Larry Linik (NuScale Power LLC)
Catawba 2 CRUD Risk Assessment
Travis Lange (Idaho National Laboratory)
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