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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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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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State legislation: Illinois bill aims to lift state’s remaining nuclear moratorium
A bill that would fully repeal the state’s entire moratorium on new nuclear projects survived a key deadline in the Illinois General Assembly last week.
To stay afloat in the spring legislative session, bills needed to be assigned to committee by March 21, and state Sen. Sue Rezin’s Senate Bill 1527 now sits with the Senate’s Energy and Public Utilities committee for review.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm H
Session Chair:
Alex Grannan (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Eric Cervi (ANL)
Session Organizers:
Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Mauricio E. Tano (INL)
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Sensitivity Analyses of Natural Convection in the AP1000 Passive Containment Cooling System Following LBLOCA Using CFD
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Hossam H. Abdellatif (Univ. Idaho), David Arcilesi (Univ. Idaho), Palash K. Bhowmik (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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Modeling In-Reactor Temperature Gradients in Lithium Aluminate Ceramic Pellets
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Nathan Carstens (PNNL), Mie Azuma (PNNL), Robert Gates (PNNL)
Post-Test Calculation Results of C2.1 Test of OECD-ATLAS3 International Cooperation Program
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Seok Cho (KAERI), Byoung-Uhn Bae (KAERI), Yu-Sun Park (KAERI), Nam-Hyun Choi (KAERI), Jae-Bong Lee (KAERI), Jong-Rok Kim (KAERI), Kyoung-Ho Kang (KAERI)
Uncertainty Propagation from Experiment Measurements to Modeling Approaches: A Case for SMR Steam Entrainment Testing
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Kenneth L. Fossum (INL), Palash K. Bhowmik (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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