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August 24–27, 2026
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Bills look to boost domestic uranium enrichment, move past Yucca Mountain
A pair of bills were introduced earlier this month in Congress that could modernize the licensing process for uranium enrichment facilities and repeal the law that designated Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the country’s nuclear waste repository.
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)
Paper
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)