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It’s been a busy eight months, Mike King told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a recent hearing on the immediate and projected impacts of new federal legislation aimed at supporting the nation’s current nuclear energy renaissance.
Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting (NCSD 2022)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Laguna A
Session Chairs:
Liam Payne
Konner Casanova (INL)
Session Organizer:
Kaushik Banerjee (PNNL)
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Postclosure Transient Criticality Analysis for a Dual-Purpose Canister
Alex Salazar III (Sandia)
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Burnup Credit Criticality Safety Analysis for High Density Spent Fuel Storage Using a Unified Bayesian Validation Methodology
Axel Hoefer (Framatome ), Harald Feldmann (Framatome ), Stefan Glaubrecht (Framatome )
The Use of Burnup Credit for Demonstrating Post-Closure Criticality Safety of UK Spent Fuel
Liam Payne (Nuclear Waste Services), Tamara D. Baldwin (Galson Sciences), Timothy W. Hicks (Galson Sciences), Robert M. Mason (Jacobs)
Validation of UNF-ST&DARDS As-Loaded Criticality Calculations
J.B. Clarity (PNNL), K. Banerjee (PNNL), L.P. Miller (PNNL), A.M. Shaw (ORNL), W. J. Marshall (ORNL)
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