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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
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The 2025 ANS election results are in!
Spring marks the passing of the torch for American Nuclear Society leadership. During this election cycle, ANS members voted for the newest vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and six board of director positions (four U.S., one non-U.S., one student). New professional division leadership was also decided on in this election, which opened February 25 and closed April 15. About 21 percent of eligible members of the Society voted—a similar turnout to last year.
Hee-Chul Eun, Jung Hoon Choi, Yung Zun Cho, In Hak Cho, Hwan Seo Park, Geun Il Park
Nuclear Technology | Volume 188 | Number 2 | November 2014 | Pages 185-191
Technical Paper | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT13-146
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In closed chamber distillation equipment, the distillation characteristics of LiCl-KCl eutectic salt containing rare earth phosphates were investigated to establish an operating condition to maximize the operating efficiency of the equipment. To understand the behaviors of LiCl-KCl eutectic salt in the distillation chamber, changes in the pressure in the distillation equipment were observed with a change in the temperature gradients between the vaporization chamber and condensation chamber, and the temperature distributions in the chamber were modeled using computational fluid dynamics software (ANSYS CFX). Based on these results, a model of the salt behavior in the chamber was established, and the most effective operating condition for over 99 wt% of salt recovery was determined. Many distillation experiments of LiCl-KCl eutectic salt containing rare earth phosphates were performed at the condition, and it was confirmed that the salt recovery efficiency (>99 wt%) could be consistently achieved at the condition.