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Materials Science & Technology
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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 Thermal Hydraulics
Saturday, April 16, 2022|1:15–2:45PM CDT|Innovation Room
Sponsored by ANS Thermal Hydraulics Division and
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Fabrication of Indistinguishable Additively Manufactured Heat Transfer Enhancements for Advanced Reactor Thermal Hydraulic Component Design
Ryan P. McGuire (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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The Effect of Inertial Coupling in the MNM-DFM
Paul W. Stockett (Purdue), Alejandro Clausse (Purdue), Martin A. Lopez de Bertodano (Purdue)
Experimental validation of PANS and RANS turbulence models for CFD simulations of the flow in a rod bundle with a channel-type spacer grid
Camila Freitas Matozinhos (TAMU), Rodolfo Vaghetto (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
Experimental Investigation of Fluorescent Dye in Molten Salt Surrogate Fluid Dowtherm-A for LIF Applications
Kara Wilke (TAMU), Daniel Orea (TAMU), Rodolfo Vaghetto (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
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