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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 THD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|4:20–5:45PM EST |Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Lane Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Ralph Wiser (MIT)
Session Organizer:
Dillon R. Shaver
Student Assistant:
Ethan Krammer
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LOFWOS Simulations of the FFTF Using SAM
4:25–4:45PM EST
Brent Hollrah (Texas A&M Univ.), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.)
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Reactor Cavity Cooling System Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis
4:45–5:05PM EST
Michael Gorman (TAMU), Enver I. Koyluoglu (TAMU), Rodolfo Vaghetto (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
Machine Learning Approach for Prediction of High-Resolution Quenching Heat Transfer
5:05–5:25PM EST
Kyung Mo Kim (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.), Paul Hurley (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.)
Analysis of a Sensitivity on the Initial RCS Conditions in the Major Non-LOCA Accidents
5:25–5:45PM EST
Ilsuk Lee (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Sarah Kang (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
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