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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
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.
Meeting Spotlight
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine C
Session Chair:
Haiyan Zhao (Univ. Idaho)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Will Compositionally Complex Carbide Ceramics be Enabling Materials for Nuclear Energy Applications?
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Bai Cui (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln), Fei Wang (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln), Lanh Trinh (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln), Kaustubh Bawane (INL), Zilong Hua (INL), Linu Malakka (INL), Lingfeng He (NCSU), Khalid Hattar (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Luke Wadle (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln), Yongfeng Lu (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln)
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Simultaneous Corrosion/Irradiation Testing in Liquid Lead-Bismuth Eutectic (LBE) for FeCrAlY and FeNiCrAlNb Alloys
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Ertugrul Demir (NCSU), Saikumaran Ayyapan (NCSU), Weiyue Zhou (MIT), Michael P. Short (MIT), Djamel Kaoumi (NCSU)
Creep Analysis of Passive Metallic Structures in Nuclear Reactors with Machine Learning
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Ugur Cotul (Purdue Univ.), Gabrielle Carrel (ANL), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue Univ.), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
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Fine-Tuned Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials for Predicting Radiation Damage Tolerance in V-Cr-Ti Alloys
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Myles G. Stapelberg (MIT), James Damewood (MIT), James Xu (MIT), Dennis Whyte (MIT), Michael P. Short (MIT)
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