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Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
Meeting Spotlight
International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Subash Sharma (Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Session Organizer:
Matthew D. Zimmer
Student Assistant:
Aman Gupta
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Scaled Subassembly Approach for Thermal Hydraulic Modeling of a Prismatic Gas Cooled Reactor using SAM
10:05–10:25AM EST
Brent Hollrah (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Claudio Filippone (HolosGen)
Paper
CFD Analysis of Cartridge Experiment Natural Circulation
10:25–10:45AM EST
Jaden Miller (Oregon State Univ.), Trevor Kent Howard (Oregon State Univ.), Musa Moussaoui (Oregon State Univ.), Wade Marcum (Oregon State Univ.)
Predicting the Pressure Drop In Hexagonal Wire-Wrapped Rod Bundles Using a Data-Driven Artificial Neural Network
10:45–11:05AM EST
Hansol Kim (Texas A&M Univ.), Yu Min Chen (Texas A&M Univ.), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.)
Transient Pool Boiling Under Subcooled Conditions
11:05–11:25AM EST
Yuan Gao (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Ezekiel Villarreal (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Ursula Zangrilli (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Heng Ban (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Novel Distributed Flow Velocity Using a Temperature Fiber Optic in Gas Flow
11:25–11:45AM EST
Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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