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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, June 12, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|Marriott 2
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Haomin Yuan (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
This session will conclude with a brief THD Awards Ceremony. Two awards for excellence in reviewing papers/summaries and a best paper award will be presented.
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Numerical Investigations of the Single-Phase Flow Characteristics in U-Bends
3:15–3:35PM EDT
Zhengting Quan (Purdue), Adam Dix (Purdue), David Kang (Purdue), Drew Ryan (Purdue), Seungjin Kim (Purdue)
Paper
Simulating Waste Glass Melters with the Spectral Element Method
3:35–3:55PM EDT
Alexander W. Abboud (INL), Donna P. Guillen (INL)
Improving Multiphase CFD Closure Models for Horizontal Bubbly Two-Phase Flow
3:55–4:15PM EDT
Drew Ryan (Fluor Marine Propulsion Corp.), Adam Dix (Purdue), John R. Buchanan Jr. (Fluor Marine Propulsion Corp.), Seungjin Kim (Purdue)
VOF Computation of Bubble Behavior in a Horizontal Pipe
4:15–4:35PM EDT
Caleb Thompson (Penn State), Michael Riley (Penn State)
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Simulating Wire-Wrapped Fuel Assembly Blockages in CFD
4:35–4:55PM EDT
F. Roelofs (NRG), A. Mathur (NRG), H. Uitslag-Doolaard (NRG)
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