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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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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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 okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD|Cosponsored by RPD
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Trevor Howard (Oregon State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Lander Ibarra (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Prashant K. Jain
Staff Producer:
Paul LaTour (ANS)
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CFD Evaluation of Local Pressure Losses in a Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Fuel Bundle
Su-Jong Yoon (INL), Dillon Shaver (ANL), Florent Heidet (ANL)
Paper
A Conceptual Design for Experimental Test Vehicle for VTR and Design Optimization using Multi-Physics TH Analysis
Seung Jun Kim (LANL), Josh Richard (LANL), Keith Woloshun (LANL), Jack Galloway (LANL), Russell Johns (LANL), Cetin Unal (LANL)
Steady-State Confirmatory Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of the Versatile Test Reactor
Joshua Richard (LANL), Jay Spore (LANL), Russell Johns (LANL), Seung Jun Kim (LANL), Jack Galloway (LANL), Cetin Unal (LANL)
Ex-Core Thermo-Fluidics Optimization for Transformational Challenge Reactor
P. Vegendla (ANL), A. Bergeron (ANL), M. Subhasish (ANL), A. Talamo (ANL), F. Heidet (ANL), B. J. Ade (ORNL), B. R. Betzler (ORNL)
Preliminary Frequency Analysis of the Transformational Challenge Reactor Vessel
S. Mohanty (ANL), A. Bergeron (ANL), A. Talamo (ANL), S.N.P. Vegendla (ANL), F. Heidet (ANL), B. Ade (ORNL), B. R. Betzler (ORNL)
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