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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
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Fires extinguished at Chernobyl following drone strike
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service has finally gained full control over a blaze that started February 14 after a drone struck the protective dome over the destroyed reactor from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant accident.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, June 13, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Michigan/Texas
Session Chair:
Pierre-Clément Simon (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Miriam Kreher (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Sebastian Schunert (INL)
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FMI-Based Multi-Fidelity Transient Analysis of a Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor Using GeN-Foam and OpenModelica
1:00–1:20PM EDT
Thomas Guilbaud (EPFL), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Andreas Pautz (EPFL)
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Multi-Physics Modeling of the KIWI-B-4E Nuclear Thermal Propulsion System Using OpenMC and GeN-Foam: Preliminary Assessment Against Experimental Data
1:20–1:40PM EDT
Thomas Guilbaud (EPFL), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU)
Incorporating Redox Kinetics in Species Transport Models for Tracking Corrosion and Reduction Phenomena in Molten Salt Reactors Using MOOSE
1:40–2:00PM EDT
Huihua Yang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Qiyun Cheng (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Wei Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Stability Analysis of Picard Iteration for Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-Hydraulics Simulations
2:00–2:20PM EDT
Dean Wang (Ohio State)
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