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INL researchers use LEDs to shed light on next-gen reactors
At Idaho National Laboratory, researchers have built a bridge between computer models and the lab’s Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation (MARVEL) microreactor.
Tony Crawford, an INL researcher and MARVEL’s reactivity control system lead, designed a phone booth–sized surrogate nuclear reactor called ViBRANT, or Visual Benign Reactor as Analog for Nuclear Testing, which uses light instead of neutrons to show a “nuclear” reaction.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Columbia 9
Session Chairs:
Nadish Saini (ANL)
Vivek Rao (ORNL)
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RANS Simulation of a Porous Blockage in a 61-Pin Wire-Wrapped Bundle
10:00–10:20AM EST
Octavio Bovati (TAMU), Yassin Hassan (TAMU)
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Comparison of RANS and LES Simulations of a Gas-Cooled Pebble Bed with 1568 Pebbles
10:20–10:40AM EST
Dezhi Dai (ANL), Prasad Vegendla (ANL), Haomin Yuan (ANL), John Acierno (ANL), Adrian Tentner (ANL)
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