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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.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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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Discovering, Making, and Testing New Materials: SRNL’s Center For Hierarchical Waste Form Materials
Savannah River National Laboratory researchers are building on the laboratory’s legacy of using cutting-edge science to effectively immobilize nuclear waste in innovative ways. As part of the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, SRNL is leveraging its depth of experience in radiological waste management to explore new frontiers in the industry.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD|Cosponsored by AAD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Room 8
Session Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
Alternate Chair:
Lin Shao
Session Organizer:
Elia Merzari
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Developing Microstructurally Accurate Finite Element Meshes for Nuclear Fuels from 3D FIB Tomography Data
3:15–3:25PM CDT
Cade A. Finney (University of Florida), Mitchell Mika (University of Florida), Assel Aitkaliyeva (University of Florida)
Paper
Automatic Feature Segmentation of TRISO Fuel Cross-Sections Through Machine Learning
3:25–3:35PM CDT
Lu Cai (Idaho National Laborary), Fei Xu (Idaho National Laboratory), Min Xian (University of Idaho), Yalei Tang (Idaho National Laboratory), Liang Zhao (Idaho National Laboratory), John Stempien (Idaho National Laboratory)
Thermal Stability and Strengthening Mechanism of BNNT Reinforced 316L Stainless Steel Composites
3:35–3:45PM CDT
Jingfan Yang (Idaho National Laboratory), Xinchang Zhang (Idaho National Laboratory), Rongjie Song (Idaho National Laboratory)
Assessing High Burnup U-19Pu-10Zr Fuel Performance Against Historical and Modeled Behavior
3:45–3:55PM CDT
Allison R. Probert (University of Florida), Alexander L. Swearingen (Idaho National Laboratory), Jason Schulthess (Idaho National Laboratory), Luca Capriotti (Idaho National Laboratory), Colby B. Jensen (Idaho National Laboratory), Assel Aitkaliyeva (University of Florida)
Lattice Structured Lightweight Structural Materials
3:55–4:05PM CDT
Rongjie Song (Idaho National Laboratory), Michael Moorehead (Idaho National Laboratory), Dewen Yushu (Idaho National Laboratory), Jingfan Yang (Idaho National Laboratory), Jia-Hong Ke (Idaho National Laboratory)
Initial Characterization of 80 MeV Xe Irradiated UN at 400-500 °C
4:05–4:15PM CDT
Ryan Crichton (Argonne National Laboratory), Peter Mouche (Argonne National Laboratory), Aaron Oaks (Argonne National Laboratory), William Limestall (Argonne National Laboratory; Illinois Institute of Technology), Abdellatif M. Yacout (Argonne National Laboratory), Laura M. Jamison (Argonne National Laboratory)
Code Qualification of Alloy 709 for High Temperature Reactor Applications
4:15–4:25PM CDT
Yanli Wang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), T.-L. Sham (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), R. Wright (Structural Alloys, LLC.), X. Zhang (Argonne National Laboratory), M. C. Messner (Argonne National Laboratory), R. Bass (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), H. Mahajan (Idaho National Laboratory), Z. Feng (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Advanced Moderator Module (AMM) Development for Microreactors
4:25–4:35PM CDT
Sumit Bhattacharya (Argonne National Laboratory), Yinbin Miao (Argonne National Laboratory), Caitlin A. Kohnert (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Michael Hahn (LANL), Thomas J. Nizolek (Los Alamos national Laboratory), Erik P. Luther (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Holly R. Trellue (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Abdellatif M. Yacout (Argonne National Laboratory)
The Role of Stoichiometry in High-Temperature Ceramic FCCI Barriers
4:35–4:45PM CDT
Sumit Bhattacharya (Argonne National Laboratory), Zhi-Gang Mei (Argonne National Laboratory), Shipeng Shu (Argonne National Laboratory), Abdellatif M. Yacout (Argonne National Laboratory)
Design Optimization of the FRIB Beam Dump Through Reinforcement Learning with Genetic Algorithm
4:45–4:55PM CDT
Geunhyeong Lee (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), Jeongseog Song (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), Mohit Patil (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), Raul Quispe-Abad (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), Nathan Bultman (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), Takuji Kanemura (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)
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