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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Guanyi Wang (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Development of a High-Prandtl Number Heat Transfer Correlation in the Near-Wall Region of a Pebble Bed
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Sade Campos (Kairos Power), Griffen Latimer (Kairos Power), Seth Cadell (Kairos Power)
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Development of an Integral Effects Test Facility for the Kairos Power Fluoride High-Temperature Reactor
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Griffen Latimer (Kairos Power), Floren Rubio (Kairos Power), Seth Cadell (Kairos Power), Craig Gerardi (Kairos Power), David Sprinkle (Kairos Power), Eric Johnson (Kairos Power), Keith Johnson (Kairos Power)
Experimental Investigation of the Effect of RCIC Steam Exhaust Line Design on Suppression Pool Thermal Stratification
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Kenneth Fossum (TAMU), Dallin Keesling (TAMU), Johnathan Smalley (TAMU), Karen Vierow Kirkland (TAMU)
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