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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
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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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Japanese researchers test detection devices at West Valley
Two research scientists from Japan’s Kyoto University and Kochi University of Technology visited the West Valley Demonstration Project in western New York state earlier this fall to test their novel radiation detectors, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on November 19.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|12:00–1:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Ronald L. Boring (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Paula Savioja
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (ANS)
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A Microworld Framework for Advanced Control Room Design
Ronald L. Boring (INL), Thomas A. Ulrich (INL), Roger Lew (Univ. of Idaho), Anna C. Hall (Braveheart Solutions)
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User-Centered Scalability: Creating Cross-System Visualizations for Nuclear Power Applications
Torrey Mortenson (INL)
Operator Preferences in an Advanced Nuclear Control Operating Room
Clara Alivisatos (Univ. of California Berkeley), Christopher Poresky (Univ. of California Berkeley), Per F. Peterson (Univ. of California Berkeley), Ronald L. Boring (INL), Thomas A. Ulrich (INL)
Systems-Theoretic Hazard Analysis of Digital Human-System Interface Relevant to Reactor Trip
Edward Chen (North Carolina State Univ.), Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State Univ.), Han Bao (INL), Hongbin Zhang (INL), Tate Shorthill (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Guiding Transformation: The Role of a Design Philosophy
Zachary A. Spielman (INL), Casey Kovesdi (INL), Katya LeBlanc (INL)
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