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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Alternate Chairs:
Jun Wang
Elia Merzari (Penn State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Jun Fang
Student Assistant:
Tri Nguyen
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Friction Factor Evaluation for Flow over a Rectangular Cylinder Using DNS Approach
1:05–1:25PM EST
Vincent Dallura (NC State Univ.), Anna Iskhakova (NC State Univ.), Igor A. Bolotnov (NC State Univ.)
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Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of MITR LEU Fuel Plate
1:25–1:45PM EST
Guanyi Wang (ANL), Cezary Bojanowski (ANL), Akshay Dave (ANL), David Jaluvka (ANL), Lin-wen Hu (MIT), Erik Wilson (ANL)
Preliminary Thermal-Hydraulics Analysis of SFR Assembly Windows Under Sodium Boiling Transients
1:45–2:05PM EST
Ran Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.), Carlo Fiorina (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Stefan Radman (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Suizheng Qiu (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.)
Validation of RANS CFD Models Based on Pressure Drop and Velocity for a 61-Pin Wire-Wrapped Fuel Bundle
2:05–2:25PM EST
Octavio Bovati (Texas A&M Univ.), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.)
Lagrangian CFD Analyses of Airborne Particles from Dropped Shipping Containers for Use in DOE M441.1-1 Calculations -- Extended Analyses of Can Impact
2:25–2:45PM EST
M. Alsharif (Consolidated Nuclear Security), S. M. McGuffie (Porter McGuffie)
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