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ANS Student Conference 2025
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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.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Jasmine B
Session Chair:
Michael S. Smith
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Alternate Chair:
Patricia D. Paviet
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AI/ML-Assisted Design of Phosphate Glass and Ceramic Nuclear Waste Forms
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Jincheng Du (Univ. North Texas), Vinay I. Hegde (Citrine Informatics), James Saal (Citrine Informatics), Brian Riley (PNNL), John Vienna (PNNL)
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Machine Learning to Enable Pyro-Processing Safeguards
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Christopher Reynolds (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center), Subhrajit RoyChowdhury (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center), Scott Evans (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center)
CYCLUS Toolkit Enhancements to Simulate Nuclear Material Buying Patterns
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Kathryn Mummah (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Paul P.H. Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Conceptual Design of Equipment and Operations for Treatment of Fermi-1 Blanket Material
11:00–11:20AM PDT
B.D. Preussner (INL), S.D. Herrmann (INL), R.C. Campbell (INL), M.R. Meengs (INL)
Commutable, Adaptive Process for the Treatment of UNF Radioactive Exhaust (CAPTURE)
11:20–11:30AM PDT
Sven Bader (Orano Federal Services)
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