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2025 ANS Annual Conference
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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Thermal Hydraulic Methods
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair:
Robert Brewster (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
Jun Soo Yoo (INL)
Track Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Nicholas Herring (Univ. of Michigan)
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Validation of Boiling Simulation Methodology for DNB Application at High Pressure Condition
Seung Jun Kim (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Emilio Baglietto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Solution Verification and Spatial Uncertainty Quantification for CFD Simulations of Nuclear Fuel Bundle Flows
W. David Pointer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Marc Olivier G. Delchini (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Supporting New Understanding of Boiling Heat Transfer and The Boiling Crisis
Matteo Bucci (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Experiments on Annular Flow Boiling in a Heated Annular Channel
Joseph Seo (Texas A&M University), Saya Lee (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University)
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