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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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WIPP improves utility shaft safety, begins infrastructure project
Harrison Western Shaft Sinkers (HWSS), the company drilling a new utility shaft at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, has retained a safety culture expert following a near-miss accident in the shaft late last year. The safety expert will conduct monthly facilitated discussions with crews working on the shaft to reinforce expectations for identifying concerns regarding unsafe circumstances, according to a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB).
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 6
Session Chair:
Bao-Wen Yang
Session Organizer:
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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