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Conference Spotlight
2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Standards Program
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What’s the most difficult question you’ve been asked as a maintenance instructor?
Blye Widmar
"Where are the prints?!"
This was the final question in an onslaught of verbal feedback, comments, and critiques I received from my students back in 2019. I had two years of instructor experience and was teaching a class that had been meticulously rehearsed in preparation for an accreditation visit. I knew the training material well and transferred that knowledge effectively enough for all the students to pass the class. As we wrapped up, I asked the students how they felt about my first big system-level class, and they did not hold back.
“Why was the exam from memory when we don’t work from memory in the plant?” “Why didn’t we refer to the vendor documents?” “Why didn’t we practice more on the mock-up?” And so on.
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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