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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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High-temperature plumbing and advanced reactors
The use of nuclear fission power and its role in impacting climate change is hotly debated. Fission advocates argue that short-term solutions would involve the rapid deployment of Gen III+ nuclear reactors, like Vogtle-3 and -4, while long-term climate change impact would rely on the creation and implementation of Gen IV reactors, “inherently safe” reactors that use passive laws of physics and chemistry rather than active controls such as valves and pumps to operate safely. While Gen IV reactors vary in many ways, one thing unites nearly all of them: the use of exotic, high-temperature coolants. These fluids, like molten salts and liquid metals, can enable reactor engineers to design much safer nuclear reactors—ultimately because the boiling point of each fluid is extremely high. Fluids that remain liquid over large temperature ranges can provide good heat transfer through many demanding conditions, all with minimal pressurization. Although the most apparent use for these fluids is advanced fission power, they have the potential to be applied to other power generation sources such as fusion, thermal storage, solar, or high-temperature process heat.1–3
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Radiation Transport Methods
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Tara Pandya (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Bill Martin (Univ. of Michigan)
Track Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Chase Lawing (NC State Univ.)
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Multigroup Cross Section Library and Processing for the CASL VERA Neutronic Simulators
Kang-Seog Kim (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Dorothea Wiarda (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Multilevel CMFD Method Development in MPACT
Shane G. Stimpson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Luke R. Cornejo (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The 2D/1D Method: Past, Present, and Future
Aaron M. Graham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Shane G. Stimpson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
An Improved Energy Deposition Model in MPACT with Simplified Gamma Smearing and Time-dependent Delayed Energy
Kang-Seog Kim (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William R. Martin (University of Michigan), Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan), Sooyoung Choi (University of Michigan), Matthew E. Kabelitz (University of Michigan), Xinyan Wang (University of Michigan), Robert K. Salko (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Yuxuan Liu (University of Michigan)
The Gamma Deposition Matrix Method for Gamma Heating Calculations
William R. Martin (University of Michigan), Yuxuan Liu (University of Michigan), Xinyan Wang (University of Michigan)
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