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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
R. Patrick White (MIT)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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NSTX-U Personnel Safety System – Safety Instrumented System Development and Design
Joseph R. Petrella, Jr. (PPPL), Timothy Stevenson, Mark Cropper, Paul Sichta, Michael D'Agostino, Moheb Thomas, Xin Zhao, Clarence Hines
Paper
Direct Evaluation of Effective Thermal Conductivity of a Sphere-Packed Bed by Heat Conduction Simulation
Kio Takai (Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi), Kazuhisa Yuki, Risako Kibushi, Noriyuki Unno
CHIMERA Integrated Testing Facility & Fusion Components Qualification
Tom Barrett (UKAEA)
Study on tritium transfer to plants from soil exposed to tritiated water
Takahiro Matano (Kyushu University), Kazunari Katayama, Toshiharu Takeishi
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