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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
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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