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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
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 6
Session Chair:
Donna P. Guillen (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Sunming Qin (INL)
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Experimental Study of the Thermal Behavior of Sodium Heat Pipe with Liquid Overfilling
3:15–3:35PM MST
Dong Hun Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
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Steady-State Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of a Quarter-Core Liquid Metal-Hydride Cooled Microreactor
3:35–3:55PM MST
Kaeley Stevens (Oregon State), Izabela Gutowska (Oregon State), Derick Botha (NuScale Power)
Using PIRT to Accelerate the Development of High Temperature Heat Pipe for eVinci Micro-Reactor
3:55–4:15PM MST
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Michael J. Patterson (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Michael A. Shockling (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Design Optimization of Gap Distance for the Annular Wick Heat Pipe
4:15–4:35PM MST
Joseph Seo (TAMU), Daegeun Kim (TAMU), Hansol Kim (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
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