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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Julie Jacobson
Alternate Chair:
Jenna Payne
Session Organizer:
Andrew E. Thomas
Please join us to listen and learn about student research related to the DOE Nuclear Energy University Program.
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Establishing the Relationship Between Reactor Design Choices and Cost Outcomes
3:15–3:35PM EST
Rowan M. Marchie (Univ. Michigan), Aditi Verma (Univ. Michigan)
Paper
Constrained Bayesian Optimization to Design Critical Experiments for Advanced Reactors
3:35–3:55PM EST
Michael G. Branco-Katcher (Oregon State), Daniel S. Siefman (LLNL), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State)
Multiphysics Modeling of a Heat Pipe Microreactor Using Serpent and OpenFOAM
3:55–4:15PM EST
Dean Price (Univ. Michigan), Nathan Roskoff (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
Tritium Diffusion Through Na-Montmorillonite
4:15–4:35PM EST
Matthew Riss (Clemson Univ.), Brian A. Powell (Clemson Univ.)
Discrete Element Simulation of Thermal-Fluidic Transport in a Packed Spherical Particle Bed
4:35–4:55PM EST
Andres Gomez (Purdue), Graham Wilson (ANL), Daniel Gould (ASRC Federal), Molly Ross (Purdue), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue)
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