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Reflections on NOW
Hash Hasemianpresident@ans.org
Last month, I talked about my goal of strengthening ANS’s voice, in part by attending three conferences. I have now checked the first event off that list: the Nuclear Opportunities Workshop.
This year, NOW took another step in outgrowing its “workshop” moniker and transitioning to a full-fledged regional conference and expo. What started only a few years ago as a small gathering in Oak Ridge, Tenn., with roughly 50 attendees has skyrocketed to an event with 1,100 people in attendance in Knoxville.
NOW’s popularity reflected how busy the roughly 350 nuclear companies in Tennessee have been in recent years. There is significant work going on surrounding Gen IV reactor development and deployment, advancements in new nuclear fuels, and defense-related builds like the Uranium Processing Facility.
John G. Bartzis, Alexander G. Venetsanos, Melpomeni Varvayanni, Nicolas Catsaros, Afroditi Megaritou
Nuclear Technology | Volume 94 | Number 2 | May 1991 | Pages 135-148
Technical Paper | Advances in Reactor Accident Consequence Assessment / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34537
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The ADREA-I code is a three-dimensional transient analytical tool that can provide atmospheric boundary layer and dispersion analysis at the mesoscale and microscale levels, under any atmospheric stability conditions and with any ground complexity, and it is particularly suitable for large topographical disturbances and consequently large atmospheric altitudes. The code, in response to the need to treat large topographical disturbances with the highest spatial and temporal numerical resolution possible, introduces new features in the description of anomalous topography, turbulent diffusion coefficients, and numerical approach. Applications carried out within the framework of validation and demonstration studies of ADREA-I give reasonable results.
