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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|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jun Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Student Assistant:
Michael Seneca
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A Numerical Method of Computing Wigner Energy Release Rate of Irradiated Graphite
1:05–1:25PM EST
Dezhi Dai (ANL), Landon Brockmeyer (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL)
Paper
Direct Numerical Simulation of Supercritical CO2 Flow: Development of a Plugin for the REFPROP/ PROPATH Properties Database in the Spectral Element Code NekRS
1:25–1:45PM EST
Tri Nguyen (Penn State Univ.), Elia Merzari (Penn State Univ.), Haomin Yuan (ANL)
Inertial Coupling Implementation in the DFM
1:45–2:05PM EST
Paul W. Stockett (Purdue Univ.), Alejandro Clausse (CNEA-CONICET), Martin Lopez-De-Bertodano (Purdue Univ.)
Experimental Investigation of Debris Bed Cooling Using Seawater
2:05–2:25PM EST
Zayed Ahmed (Kansas State Univ.), Steven Eckels (Kansas State Univ.), Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State Univ.)
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