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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Researchers use one-of-a-kind expertise and capabilities to test fuels of tomorrow
At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 6
Session Chair:
Bao-Wen Yang
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Alternate Chair:
Lane Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Update on Out-of-Pile LOCA Experiment
1:00–1:20PM MST
Musa Moussaoui (Oregon State), Trevor Kent Howard (Oregon State), Wade Marcum (Oregon State), Guillaume Mignot (Oregon State), Aaron Weiss (Oregon State)
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Project Overview of Thermal-Hydraulic and Mechanical Behavior of Near-Term ATF Design in Reflood Conditions
1:20–1:40PM MST
WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Cole Dunbar (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Kumar Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), David Kamerman (INL), Robert Armstrong (INL), Hwasung Yeom (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Analysis on the Preliminary Gap Conductance Test with Single Primary Heat Extraction and Removal Emulator
1:40–2:00PM MST
Minseop Song (INL), Zachary D. Sellers (INL), Jeremy L. Hartvigsen (INL), Sunming Qin (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
Initial Horizontal Co-Flow Gas Injection Studies in Water for Liquid Metal Spallation Targets
2:00–2:20PM MST
Justin Weinmeister (ORNL), Elvis Dominguez-Ontiveros (ORNL)
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