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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|New and Advanced Reactors
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Cardozo
Session Chair:
Ferry Roelofs
Alternate Chair:
Emre Tatli (Westinghouse)
Session Organizer:
Rui Hu (ANL)
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CFD - STH Code Coupling for the Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of NACIE-UP Experimental Facility
3:30–3:50PM EDT
P. Cioli Puviani (Politecnico di Torino), R. Zanino (Politecnico di Torino), T. Del Moro (Sapienza Univ. Rome), F. Giannetti (Sapienza Univ. Rome), B. Gonfiotti (ENEA), I. Di Piazza (ENEA), D. Martelli (ENEA), M. Tarantino (ENEA)
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Transient Behavior of Multi-Dimensional Core Cooling by D-DHX in Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors
3:50–4:10PM EDT
T. Ezure (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Y. Akimoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), T. Onojima (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), A. Kurihara (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), M. Tanaka (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Development of a new Thermal-Hydraulic Module for FRENETIC, a Code for the Multiphysics Analysis of Liquid Metal-Cooled Reactors
4:10–4:30PM EDT
A. Lombardo (Politecnico di Torino), G.F. Nallo (Politecnico di Torino), N. Abrate (Politecnico di Torino), S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino)
Multi-Physic Coupled Simulation of the Loss of Flow WithOut Scram Transient of the Fast Flux Test Facility
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Simon Li (CEA), Héloïse Velardo (CEA), Georis Billo (CEA), Pierre Sciora (CEA), Matteo Monegaglia (CEA)
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