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Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Former NRC commissioners lend support to efforts to eliminate mandatory hearings
A group of nine former nuclear regulatory commissioners sent a letter Wednesday to the current Nuclear Regulatory Commission members lending support to efforts to get rid of mandatory hearings in the licensing process, which should speed up the process by three to six months and save millions of dollars.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 3
Session Chair:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Kaeley Stevens
Session Organizer:
Guanyi Wang (ANL)
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HI-STORM Overpack and MPC-32 Thermal-Hydraulic Model with MOOSE Framework
1:00–1:20PM MST
Sinan Okyay (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Fande Kong (INL), David Reger (Penn State), Peter German (INL), Victor Coppo Leite (Penn State), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Alexander D. Lindsay (INL)
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Structural Response of University of Missouri Research Reactor Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Elements Under Hydraulic and Thermal Load
1:20–1:40PM MST
Guanyi Wang (ANL), Cezary Bojanowski (ANL), Dhongik Yoon (ANL), John Stillman (ANL), David Jaluvka (ANL), Leslie Foyto (Univ. Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor), Erik Wilson (ANL)
A Three-Dimensional Cartesian Thermal-Hydraulic Solver in the Residual Formulation of CTF
1:40–2:00PM MST
Lance Bullerwell (NCSU), Agustin Abarca (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Jason Hou (NCSU)
MELCOR Model Development of the General Atomics Fast Modular Reactor: Transient Accident Analysis
2:00–2:20PM MST
WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Cole Dunbar (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Jun Wang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
An Equation-Free Based Coupling Approach for Multiscale Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer Analysis
2:20–2:40PM MST
Qiyun Cheng (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Huihua Yang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Shanbin Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Wei Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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