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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Fermilab center renamed after late particle physicist Helen Edwards
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Integrated Engineering Research Center, which officially opened in January 2024, is now known as the Helen Edwards Engineering Center. The name was changed to honor the late particle physicist who led the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the lab’s Tevatron accelerator and was part of the Water Resources Development Act signed by President Biden in December 2024, according to a Fermilab press release.
Sei-Hun Yun et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | August 2009 | Pages 867-872
Tritium Breeding | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A9020
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Thermophysical properties of the complex metal hydride system such as zirconium cobalt hydride, an intermetallic hydride compound, in a massive state were estimated by introducing a crystal lattice structure in a stepwise formation and applying a mixing rule for each property. Experimental data in rarity in metal hydride system was used to calculate and to correlate the consistency of the mixed thermal and physical properties of the complex atomic structure in a unit cell. As a result, the volume expansion of the ZrCoHx was greatly influenced by the hydrogen content and increased to a maximum range of 36% at ZrCoH3 system, but no meaning in the thermal expansion in engineering concept. In consideration of the heat capacity the temperature effect due to the hydrogen an interstitial heat quantity in the metal complex formation was mainly attributed, but not much for the hydrogen content (H/ZrCo ratio). In the temperature range between 200K and 600K the heat capacity of hydrogen atom was taken into account to reveal a sharp discrepancy in its non-hydriding property, especially in the lower temperature range. Atomic hydrogen was expected to behave from a gas to a solid property in heat capacity in the temperature ranges from 600K to 200K.