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Chris Wagner: The role of Eden Radioisotopes in the future of nuclear medicine
Chris Wagner has more than 40 years of experience in nuclear medicine, beginning as a clinical practitioner before moving into leadership roles at companies like Mallinckrodt (now Curium) and Nordion. His knowledge of both the clinical and the manufacturing sides of nuclear medicine laid the groundwork for helping to found Eden Radioisotopes, a start-up venture that intends to make diagnostic and therapeutic raw material medical isotopes like molybdenum-99 and lutetium-177.
Mofassir Ud Dowla, M. A. Rashid Sarkar (Bangladesh Univ of Eng and Technology)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 523-532
This paper illustrates numerical simulations of heat transfer and fluid flow in triangular section and unit cell section of fuel blocks of High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR). The thermal hydraulic simulations have been performed in a minimalistic computational resource environment and their viabilities have been studied. General Atomics Modular High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (MHTGR) has been considered in this work as a reference design. In this paper, 3-D models of triangular section and unit cell section of fuel blocks similar to the MHTGR design have been developed for single phase helium flow using COMSOL Multiphysics software. In these models, velocity profiles, temperature profiles, pressure profiles, Reynolds number profiles and Nusselt number profiles have been studied. Algebraic y+ turbulence model has been used in this work. Finally, the simulation results have been compared with General Atomics provided MHTGR design parameters and theoretically obtained results to check for their accuracy and viability.