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Hash Hashemianpresident@ans.org
From kindergarten classrooms to national security facilities, each event I attended during the opening weeks of the new year underscored one truth: The future of nuclear energy depends on the people we inspire, educate, and empower today.
I had a busy start to 2026, first speaking at the Nashville Energy and Mining Summit alongside Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association senior vice president Justin Maierhofer to explore the necessary synergies among policy, academic coursework, research, and industry expertise in accelerating American nuclear innovation. Drawing on experiences in high-level government relations and public affairs and decades of work in nuclear instrumentation advancements, we discussed Tennessee’s nuclear renaissance, workforce development, and policy frameworks that support emerging energy demands.
S. Beetham, J. Capecelatro
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 12 | December 2023 | Pages 1977-1986
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2178251
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Turbulence in two-phase flows drives many important natural and engineering processes, from geophysical flows to nuclear power generation. Strong interphase coupling between the carrier fluid and disperse phase precludes the use of classical turbulence models developed for single-phase flows. In recent years, there has been an explosion of machine learning techniques for turbulence closure modeling, though many rely on augmenting existing models. In this work, we propose an approach that blends sparse regression and gene expression programming (GEP) to generate closed-form algebraic models from simulation data. Sparse regression is used to determine a minimum set of functional groups required to capture the physics, and GEP is used to automate the formulation of the coefficients and dependencies on operating conditions. The framework is demonstrated on homogeneous turbulent gas-particle flows in which two-way coupling generates and sustains carrier-phase turbulence.