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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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DOE report: Cost to finish cleaning up Hanford site could exceed $589 billion
The cost to complete the cleanup of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state could cost as much as $589.4 billion, according to the 2025 Hanford Lifecycle Scope, Schedule, and Cost Report, which was released by the DOE on April 15. While that estimate is $44.2 billion lower than the DOE’s 2022 estimate of $640.6 billion, a separate, low-end estimate has since grown by more than 21 percent, to $364 billion.
The life cycle report, which the DOE is legally required to issue every three years under agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology), summarizes the remaining work scope, schedule, and cost estimates for the nuclear site. For more than 40 years, Hanford’s reactors produced plutonium for America’s defense program.
Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Technical Session
Monday, June 16, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom E
Session Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Hyun Gook Kang
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The Automatic Reactor Control System (ARCS) Upgrade, version 2.0 for TREAT
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Benjamin A. Baker (Idaho National Laboratory), Andrew Hiem (Idaho National Laboratory), Jacob Hansen (Idaho National Laboratory), Kirby Hanson (Idaho National Laboratory), Benjamin Chase (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Towards An FPGA Asynchronous Motor V/f Control Applied on Critical (Category A) Nuclear Power Plant Ventilation Systems
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Eduardo Henrique Couto Montenegro (EDF R&D), Melha Bitam (EDF R&D), Youcef Mekahlia (EDF R&D)
Demonstration of Methodology for Advanced Autonomous Control in Flexible Power Operation of Multi-Unit SMRs
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Qicang Shen (University of Michigan), Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin Madison)
A Study on Co-existing Heterogeneous Wireless Networks for Data Transmission within a Nuclear Facility
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Syed A. Mahmud (University of Utah), Imtiaz Nasim (Idaho National Laboratory), Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Lab), Sneha Kasera (University of Utah), Migyue Ji (University of Utah)
Enhancing Autonomous Control of Microreactors Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Leo Tunkle (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Kamal K. Abdulraheem (University of Michigan Ann Arbor - 1906 Cooley Building), Linyu Lin (Idaho National Laboratory), Majdi I. Radaideh (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
Mitigating Error Dependency with Hybrid System Operation: Quantifying Human Reliability Analysis
4:55–5:15PM CDT
Zeth duBois (University of Idaho), Roger Lew (University of Idaho)
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