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From the pages of Nuclear News: Industry update September 2024
Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:
BWXT advanced nuclear reactor agreement signed
Burns & McDonnell, a family of construction and design companies, has entered into an agreement with BWX Technologies to further advance the design and development of the BWXT BANR microreactor, which has a “passively safe design” for powering remote facilities while providing a carbon-free source of heat and electricity. The two companies completed the first phase of their collaboration in early 2024 and intend to complete the second phase by the third quarter of 2025. Burns & McDonnell is helping BWXT develop the balance-of-plant systems for the BANR, generate the power plant layout, and perform preconstruction planning. Its scope of work also includes developing power cycle architecture, identifying critical components, integrating site design, and supporting steam and power distribution infrastructure and reactor building structures. The Wyoming Energy Authority is currently evaluating the feasibility of using the BANR in a state nuclear market for baseload heat and power deployed for remote industrial users, such as mining operations.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Coral B
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Alternate Chair:
Victor Petrov
Session Organizer:
Ferry Roelofs
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VOCAL: Validation, Optical Calibration and Learning Interactive Graphical Interface for Distributed Temperature Sensing in Advanced Reactors
10:00–10:20AM EST
Lauren A. Kohler (NCSU), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Matthew T. Weathered (ANL)
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The Use of Transfer Learning to Extend Critical Heat Flux Predictions
10:20–10:40AM EST
Aidan J. Furlong (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Multi-physics Modeling of Radiative Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow for the Reactor Cavity Cooling System
10:40–11:00AM EST
Sinan Okyay (Penn State), Victor Coppo Leite (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Paolo Balestra (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL)
Development of the CNN-Based Computer Vision Method for Pressure Field Reconstruction in Turbulent Channel Flow
11:00–11:20AM EST
Congshan Mao (University of Missouri, Columbia), Yue Jin (University of Missouri Columbia)
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