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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.
Technical Session|Fundamental Thermal Hydraulics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Columbia 2
Session Chair:
Stephen M. Bajorek
Alternate Chair:
Jose N. Reyes
Session Organizer:
Philippe M. Bardet
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Scaled Validation Test for High Prandtl Number Fluid Mixed Convection Between Parallel Plates with Symmetric and Asymmetric Boundary Conditions
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Floren Rubio (Kairos Power), Johnathan Gilbreth (Kairos Power), Seth Cadell (Kairos Power), Alexander Heald (Kairos Power), Haihua Zhao (Kairos Power), Brandon P. Haugh (Kairos Power)
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Scaling Effects in Intermediate Break LOCA Scenarios
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Kevin Martin (UPC), Jordi Freixa (UPC), Victor Martinez-Quiroga (UPC)
Digitilization, Management and Synthesis of Thermal Hydraulic Legacy Data Using Dynamical System Scaling
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Stephen A. Heagy (FPoliSolutions), Cesare Frepoli (FPoliSolutions), José N. Reyes (NuScale Power)
The use of System Codes for Scaling Analysis and the use of Scaling Tools for the Analysis of Code Predictions
2:30–2:50PM EDT
D. Bestion (Consultant), A. Ciechocki (CEA), S. Carnevali (CEA)
Comparison of Dynamical System Scaling and Hierarchical Two-Tiered Scaling Applications with Definite Solution Analogy Theory to the Passive Residual Heat Removal System of Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Advanced Reactor
2:50–3:10PM EDT
Xinyu Li (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Dalin Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Xingguang Zhou (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Xindi Lv (Xi'an Jiaotong University,), Dianqiang Jiang (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Zhiyuan Wu (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Sijun Li (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Wenxi Tian (Xi'an Jiao Tong University), Suizheng Qiu (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), G.H. Su (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.)
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