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The Young Members Group works to encourage and enable all young professional members to be actively involved in the efforts and endeavors of the Society at all levels (Professional Divisions, ANS Governance, Local Sections, etc.) as they transition from the role of a student to the role of a professional. It sponsors non-technical workshops and meetings that provide professional development and networking opportunities for young professionals, collaborates with other Divisions and Groups in developing technical and non-technical content for topical and national meetings, encourages its members to participate in the activities of the Groups and Divisions that are closely related to their professional interests as well as in their local sections, introduces young members to the rules and governance structure of the Society, and nominates young professionals for awards and leadership opportunities available to members.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Corporate powerhouses join pledge to triple nuclear energy by 2050
Following in the steps of an international push to expand nuclear power capacity, a group of powerhouse corporations signed and announced a pledge today to support the goal of at least tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050.
Julio Diaz, Qingqing Liu, Victor Petrov, Annalisa Manera, Xiaodong Sun
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 10 | October 2023 | Pages 1442-1465
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2133504
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Radiation transmission measurement methods have become widely implemented in the study of two-phase flow due to leaping advancements in detector efficiency, spatial resolution, and high-speed measurement capabilities. However, radiation-based measurements of boiling experiments bear several challenges due to the mismatch of calibration to experimental conditions, beam hardening, thermal expansion, and material and working fluid density changes with temperature. The present research focuses on developing methods to analyze the high-resolution X-ray radiography measurements of the post-critical heat flux (Post-CHF) heat transfer facility built at the University of Michigan that is intended to perform high-pressure and high-temperature measurements; the experimental test section is made of Incoloy-800H and is characterized as a cylindrical geometry expanding 1.0 m in length. The broad goal of the experiment is to build a high-resolution database to develop models for inverted annular film boiling and inverted slug film boiling through dispersed flow film boiling. The methods developed in this research model the thermal effects of the postulated challenges in order to properly scale the X-ray calibration measurements to the experimental conditions. Additionally, a cross-section-weighted method is developed to estimate the axial void fraction; this method is validated by modeling the test section with synthetic void fraction data. Last, preliminary high-speed X-ray measurements performed at subcooled boiling conditions are presented and analyzed with the developed methods, which include bubbly, slug, and churn flows.