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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections
Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050—reaching 2.6 times the 2024 level—with small modular reactors expected to play a pivotal role in this high-case scenario.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi announced the new projections, contained in the annual report Energy, Electricity, and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2050 at the 69th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
In the report’s high-case scenario, nuclear electrical generating capacity is projected to increase to from 377 GW at the end of 2024 to 992 GW by 2050. In a low-case scenario, capacity rises 50 percent, compared with 2024, to 561 GW. SMRs are projected to account for 24 percent of the new capacity added in the high case and for 5 percent in the low case.
May 25, 2022|11:00AM–12:30PM (12:00–1:30PM EDT)
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used within the nuclear industry and research centers for a variety of tasks. Yet, despite its widespread use, CFD has many pitfalls that should be avoided in particular when modeling complex turbulent flows. After Introducing Nek5000 in a recent webinar – a powerful open source code, we embark in a four lecture webinar series on CFD. The aim of this short series is to introduce key concepts in turbulence modeling with a focus on practical applications in nuclear engineering. The first lecture will cover Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes or RANS turbulence models, which are currently the workhorse of CFD in industry.
Presenter
Annalisa Manera, Professor of Nuclear Systems and Multiphase Flows, ETH Zurich
Since July 2021, Dr. Manera is on a leave of absence from the University of Michigan, where she has been Professor in the Nuclear Engineering Department for the last 10 years. At the University of Michigan she has established a research and teaching program in nuclear systems thermal-hydraulics and is the co-director of the Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow Laboratory (ECMF) and the High Resolution Imaging Lab. Her research group focuses on high-resolution experimental techniques and CFD-based high-fidelity multiphysics simulations of nuclear systems.
Moderator
Dillon Shaver, Argonne National Laboratory
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