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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Hanford proposes “decoupled” approach to remediating former chem lab
Working with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy has revised its planned approach to remediating contaminated soil underneath the Chemical Materials Engineering Laboratory (commonly known as the 324 Building) at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The soil, which has been designated the 300-296 waste site, became contaminated as the result of a spill of highly radioactive material in the mid-1980s.
G. Giudicelli, R. Crowder, L. Harbour, D. Gaston
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 1 | April 2025 | Pages S397-S405
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2332009
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
MaCaw is a Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE)–based application that enables domain-decomposed neutral particle transport calculations in MOOSE. It leverages MOOSE’s ray-tracing module for unstructured mesh particle tracking and OpenMC for collision physics. Additionally, the OpenMC implementation of several calculation steps (e.g. initialization and normalization) needed in a Monte Carlo particle transport eigenvalue calculation were adapted for domain decomposition. This paper reports on MaCaw’s implementation and several limitations, a single verification case, and early single-node scaling studies. This paper also serves as an announcement of the public release of MaCaw on the Idaho National Laboratory GitHub at https://github.com/idaholab/macaw.