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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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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|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|8:00–9:45AM MST|Sonoran 6
Session Chair:
Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Vineet Kumar (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Droplet-Capable Conductivity Probe (DCCP-4) in Annular Flows Within 1-Inch Pipe
8:00–8:20AM MST
Charie Tsoukalas (Purdue), Yang Zhao (Purdue), Constantine Tsoukalas (Purdue), Mamoru Ishii (Purdue)
Paper
Effects of Liquid Viscosity on Friction Factors of Gas-Liquid Swirling Annular Flows in a Vertical Pipe
8:20–8:40AM MST
Ryoya Koto (Kobe Univ.), Ryo Kurimoto (Kobe Univ.), Kosuke Hayashi (Kobe Univ.), Akio Tomiyama (Kobe Univ.)
Effects of Upper and Lower Pipe Ends on Interfacial and Wall Friction Factors Under Counter-Current Flow Limitation in a Vertical Pipe
8:40–9:00AM MST
Masaki Yamashita (Kobe Univ.), Ryo Kurimoto (Kobe Univ.), Kosuke Hayashi (Kobe Univ.), Toshiya Takaki (Institute of Nuclear Safety System), Michio Murase (Institute of Nuclear Safety System), Akio Tomiyama (Kobe Univ.)
Investigation of Droplet Heat Transfer Using Optical Fiber Sensors
9:00–9:20AM MST
Bruno Pinheiro Serrao (Virginia Tech), Evelyn Washburn (Virginia Tech), Kyong Mo Kim (Univ. Michigan), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Virginia Tech)
Tracking the Coalescence Front from Multi-Phase Visual Data of Transient Critical Heat Flux Experiments
9:20–9:40AM MST
Angelo Camargo (Oregon State), Guillaume Mignot (Oregon State), Trevor Howard (Oregon State), Aaron Weiss (Oregon State), Wade Marcum (Oregon State)
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