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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2022)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Redondo
Session Chair:
Nolan Goth
Alternate Chair:
Sheng Zhang
Session Organizer:
W. David Pointer
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Scaled Experiment Design for Transient Heat Transfer in Molten Salt-Cooled Reactor Channels
Omar Ashraf Alzaabi (Univ. California, Berkeley), Per Peterson (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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Numerical Investigations on Hydrodynamic Molten Salt Lubricated Bearings
Yuqi Liu (Univ. New Mexico), Daniel L. Barth (High Temperature System Designs), Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Shuai Che (Univ. Michigan), Minghui Chen (Univ. New Mexico)
Design of a High-Temperature Molten-Salt Pump Bearing Test Facility
CFD Analysis of Tritium Removal from Molten Salt Reactors by Sparging Helium Gas Bubbles
Anthony G. Bowers Jr. (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Subash L. Sharma (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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