Although the 2020 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Student Conference has been postponed due to COVID19, senior design teams were able to present their work during the ANS Student Webinar Series. Ten finalists were chosen from 30 university team participants.
NC State Nuclear Engineering had 4 senior design teams in the April 10 competition, they included –
Design of a Molten Salt Reactor (placed 4th)
Design Team: Charles Goodman, Vincent Novellino, Lindsay Verrico & Thomas Thomson (SCSU)
Adviser: Dr. Scott Palmtag
Sponsor: Idaho National Laboratory (Dr. Youssef Ballout)
High-Enrichment/High-Burnup Loading Pattern Optimization for a 2-Loop Westinghouse PWR
Design Team: Chris Gozum, Spencer McNeil, Amadu Toronka
Advisers: Drs. Kostadin Ivanov & Maria Avramova
Sponsor: Westinghouse (Mr. Baxter Durham)
Core Optimization Comparison between FORMOSA’s Native Solver and PRISM
Design Team: Jonathan Crozier, Patrick Hartwell, Nick Meehan, Amelia Manhardt (SCSU)
Adviser: Dr. Jason Hou
Sponsor: Framatome (Dr. Mike Savela)
Reactor Modeling of each Mark-18A Target in SRS’s K-Reactor during Californium Production Campaign
Design Team: Ben Austin, Cade Brinkley, Jacob Weinberg, Jennifer Jeffcoat (SCSU)
Advisers: Dr. Benjamin Beeler
Sponsor: Savannah River National Lab (Drs. Tracy Stover, Nicholas Bridges & Ms. Tara Smith)
The 2019-20 graduating class has a total of 7 student design teams, they include –
Neutron Absorber Studies for HTGR Micro-Reactor Concept
Design Team: Johnny Klemes, Blake Montz, Kaitlyn Sullivan
Adviser: Dr. Xu Wu
Sponsor: GE Power (Drs. John Zino & Glen Watford)
High-Enrichment/High-Burnup Loading Pattern Optimization for a 3-Loop Westinghouse PWR
Design Team: Justin Cohen, Mohsen Zakaib, James Harglerode (SCSU)
Advisers: Drs. Maria Avramova & Kostadin Ivanov
Sponsor: Westinghouse (Mr. Baxter Durham)
Accident Tolerant Fuel Coating Methods for Fuel Rod Inner Surface
Design Team: Robert Carlson, Nick Joslin, Liam Truong, Robert Gentile (SCSU)
Advisers: Dr. Djamel Kaoumi
Sponsor: GE Power (Mr. Russ Fawcett & Mr. W. Patrick Davis)
From ANS press release,
NC State students, ANS staff, and the Student Sections Committee quickly made a plan. NCSU would host the ANS Student Conference in 2021 and would also help turn some of the planned conference sessions—including the design competition—into a three-part Student Webinar Series. Conference planners shifted their focus to setting the stage for a dynamic online program that could deliver some of the experience of being at an in-person conference.