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Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES 2023)
December 10–14, 2023
New Orleans, LA|New Orleans Marriott
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Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” at 70
Seventy years ago to the day, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his historic address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. (See December 2023 Nuclear News's “Leaders” column to read the reflections of Kathryn Huff, the Department of Energy’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy, on the speech’s anniversary.)
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Bob Martin
Alternate Chair:
Arturo Cabral
Session Organizer:
Lander Ibarra
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SAM Code Validation of Natural Convection in Molten Salt
1:05–1:25PM EST
Jadyn Reis (Texas A&M Univ.), Michael Gorman (Texas A&M Univ.), Brent Hollrah (Texas A&M Univ.), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.)
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Validation Effort for the OSU HTTF PG-28 Test Using RELAP5-3D
1:25–1:45PM EST
Joshua K. Halsted (Oregon State Univ.), Izabela Gutowska (Oregon State Univ.)
Preliminary Analysis of Journal Bearings for Molten Salt Pumps
1:45–2:05PM EST
Yuqi Liu (Univ. of New Mexico), Minghui Chen (Univ. of New Mexico)
Preliminary Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis for Heat Pipe Irradiation Test in the MIT Reactor
2:05–2:25PM EST
Aaron S. Epiney (INL), David M. Carpenter (MIT), Justin Johnson (INL)
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