About NUTHOS

The 13th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation, and Safety (NUTHOS-13) will take place in Hsinchu, Taiwan on Sep. 5-10, 2022, hosted by Chung-Hwa Nuclear Society (CHNS), National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) and co-hosted by American Nuclear Society (ANS), Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ), Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS), Chinese Nuclear Society (CNS), Korean Nuclear Society (KNS).

The NUTHOS conference is traditionally held every two years. The first was held in Taipei in 1984 followed by Tokyo (1986), Seoul (1988), Taipei (1994), Beijing (1997), Nara (2004), Seoul (2008), Shanghai (2010), Kaohsiung (2012), Okinawa (2014), Gyeongju (2016) and Qingdao (2018). Due to the pandemics, NUTHOS-13, 2020 in Canada is postponed and moved to Taiwan in 2022. NUTHOS, focusing on nuclear thermal hydraulics, operation and safety, has attracted great attentions from the international nuclear community and has become one of the major international conferences in these fields.

NUTHOS-13 will cover eight technical tracks including Fundamental Thermal-Hydraulics, Computational Thermal-Hydraulics and CFD Method, Experimental Thermal-Hydraulics, Safety and Severe Accidents, Thermal-Hydraulics and Safety of Advanced Reactors, Plant Operation and Maintenance, Plant Diagnostics and Monitoring, Small Modular Reactors and Micro Reactors. Moreover, a special session on Decommission and Spent Fuel Management and a panel session on Small Modular Reactors and Micro Reactors will also be arranged.

Attendees will be able to report on their studies and changes impacting the nuclear industry and share lessons learned from their safely operations of nuclear power plants.

Due to the travel restriction of current Taiwan government’s COVID-19 pandemic policy, we have to decide that the NUTHOS-13 conference will be held 100% on-line.

We sincerely invite you to contribute and participate in NUTHOS-13. Mark the dates and promote NUTHOS-13 to your community. We trust this will be a very successful event and exciting conference to reconfirm the critical role of power for carbon neutrality in 2050-2060.

Conference Organizing Committee

Honorary Chairs
Prof. John C. Luxat	Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Canada
Prof. Hisashi Ninokata	Dipartimento di Energia, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Jong Hyun Kim	Retiree, KAIST and EPRI, Korea
General Chair
Prof. Min Lee	College of Nuclear Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
General Co-Chairs
Prof. Fan-Bill Cheung	Department of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University, United States
Prof. Yassin A. Hassan	Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, United States
Prof. Bao Wen Yang	Institute for Advanced Research in Multiphase Flow and Energy Transfer, Delta Energy Group, Qingdao, China

Technical Program Committee

Chair
Prof. Chin Pan	Professor Emeritus, Department of Engineering and System Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Head and CLP Power Chair professor of Nuclear Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Co-Chairs
Prof. Xu Cheng	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Dr. Lin-Wen Hu	Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Dr. Ching-Tsuen Huang	Former Director General of the Fuel Cycle and Materials Administration, Atomic Energy Council (AEC), Taiwan Chairperson of the Academic Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, Chung-Hwa Nuclear Society (CHNS), Taiwan
Prof. Elia Merzari	Department of Nuclear Engineering, Penn State University, United States
Prof. Chul-Hwa Song	Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Korea
Prof. Yuliang Sun	Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, China
Prof. Satoshi Yanagihara	The Association for Nuclear Decommissioning Study (ANDES), Japan Research Institute of Nuclear Engineering, University of Fukui, Japan
Technical Program Committee Secretary
Dr. Jin Der Lee	Nuclear Science and Technology Development Center, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Technical Program Committee Members
Prof. In Cheol Bang	School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, UNIST University, Korea
Prof. Shao-Wen Chen	Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Prof. Huai-En Hsieh	College of Energy, Xiamen University, China
Dr. Wen-Sheng Hsu	Nuclear Science and Technology Development Center, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Prof. Sungjoong Kim	Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea
Prof. Shuichiro Miwa	Nuclear Professional School, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Shun-chi Wu	Department of Engineering and System Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Prof. Jiyun Zhao	Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Prof. Hsingtzu Wu	Department of Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

International Steering Committee

Chair
Dr. Jason Chao	United Nuclear Inc, Los Altos, California, United States

Local Organization Committee

Chair
Prof. Yuh-Ming Ferng	Department of Engineering and System Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Co-Chairs
Dr. Yung Shin Tseng	Nuclear Science and Technology Development Center, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Hsinchu City

A lot of famous technology companies of Taiwan have their home base at “Hsinchu Science Park”. The technology development has made the city a vital economic hub not only for Taiwan, Hsinchu City is now as known as the Silicon Valley of Taiwan.