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ANS names 2026 Congressional Fellows
Kasper
Hayes
The American Nuclear Society has officially selected two of its members to serve as its 2026 Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows. Alyssa Hayes and Benjamin Kasper will help the Society fulfill its strategic goal of enhancing nuclear policy by working in the halls of Congress, either in a congressional member’s personal office or with a committee, starting next January.
“The Congressional Fellowship program has put ANS in a unique position to provide significant technical assistance to Congress on nuclear science, energy, and technology, with great results,” said Congressional Fellowship Special Committee chair Harsh Desai, himself a former Congressional Fellow. “This once-in-a-lifetime professional development opportunity will allow them to learn the art of policymaking and potentially pursue it as part of their careers beyond the fellowship.”
Franz-Josef Erbacher, Hans-Joachim Neitzel
Nuclear Technology | Volume 111 | Number 3 | September 1995 | Pages 386-394
Technical Paper | A New Light Water Reactor Safety Concept Special / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A15868
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The composite containment proposed aims to cope with beyond-design-basis accidents. The goal is to restrict the consequences of severe core meltdown accidents to the reactor plant. One essential of this new concept is passive decay heat removal from the containment by natural air convection. Experimental and calculational results obtained up to now with the passive containment cooling program suggest that in the composite containment of a 1300-MW(electric) pressurized water reactor, the decay heat can be safely removed by natural air convection. Detailed experimental investigations and large-scale tests envisaged will complement the results and provide the database for the design of the containment and further development of multidimensional computer codes.
