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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Researchers use one-of-a-kind expertise and capabilities to test fuels of tomorrow
At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Columbia 10
Session Chairs:
SuJong Yoon (INL)
Prashant Jain (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Izabela Gutowska (OSU)
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Heat Transfer Model of Liquid Sodium Purification and Diagnostic System for Advanced Reactor Control Applications
1:00–1:20PM EST
Rita Appiah (Purdue), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Derek Kultgen (ANL), Lefteri Tsoukalas (Purdue), Richard Vilim (ANL)
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Evaluation of Thermal Conductivity of Chamfer Cylinders in a Pebble Bed Mesh
1:20–1:40PM EST
Dezhi Dai (ANL), Haomin Yuan (ANL), Prasad Vegendla (ANL), Adrian Tentner (ANL)
Latest Developments in the MOOSE Fluid Properties Module
1:40–2:00PM EST
Guillaume L. Giudicelli (INL), Benjamin Spaude (INL), Steven Isaacs (INL), Alexander Lindsay (INL)
CANDU Fuel Channel Modeling in CTF Within the OECD-NEA Blind Benchmark on CANDU Thermal-Hydraulics
2:00–2:20PM EST
Daria Bolgova (NCSU), Agustin Abarca (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU)
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