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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, November 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 3
Session Chair:
Xu Wu
Alternate Chair:
Juliana Duarte
Session Organizer:
Annalisa Manera
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Prediction of Unstable Two-Phase Flow Behavior Using Dense Neural Network
1:00–1:20PM MST
Paul Hurley (Virginia Tech), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Virginia Tech)
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Introducing the OECD/NEA WPRS Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
1:20–1:40PM MST
Xu Wu (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU)
Flow Regime Identification for Inclined Two-Phase Flows Using Machine Learning
1:40–2:00PM MST
David Kang (Purdue), Drew Ryan (Purdue), Seungjin Kim (Purdue)
Review and Comparison of Existing District Heating Reactor Concepts
2:00–2:20PM MST
Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ryan Dailey (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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