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November 8–12, 2025
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Energy Secretary to speak at the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
In less than two weeks, the American Nuclear Society’s second annual conference of the year, the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo, will come to Washington, D.C.
Today, ANS is announcing that Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be joining the list of nuclear leaders slated to speak at the conference.
Click here to register for the meeting, which will take place November 9–12 in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton. Be sure to do so before November 7 to take advantage of priority pricing.
Justin A. Collins, Minami Yoda, Said I. Abdel-Khalik
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 721-725
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963324
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The High-Yield Lithium-Injection Fusion Energy (HYLIFE)-II conceptual reactor design uses stationary and oscillating slab jets, or liquid sheets, of molten Flibe (Li2BeF4) to shield the chamber first walls from damaging neutrons, ions, and target debris. A lattice of stationary liquid sheets with the beams propagating through the lattice openings is used to protect chamber front and back walls. Extremely smooth sheets are required to effectively shield the chamber first walls without clipping the driver beams. Surface ripple and its growth are therefore a major concern in liquid protection design.
In this study, a non-intrusive technique for directly visualizing and measuring the instantaneous free-surface geometry has been developed. Mean free-surface geometry and surface geometry fluctuation results for turbulent water sheets issuing vertically downwards into atmospheric pressure air are presented at Reynolds numbers based upon the nozzle thickness of 34000, at distances up to 25 nozzle thicknesses (25δ) downstream of the nozzle exit.
