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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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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.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Thursday, July 20, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|Rotunda
Session Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell
Alternate Chair:
Nancy J. Lybeck
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Ultrasonic Assessment of Neutron Irradiated Concrete-Forming Aggregates
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Hongbin Sun (ORNL), Elena Tajuelo Rodriguez (ORNL), Jose Arregui Mena (ORNL), Yann Le Pape (ORNL), Thomas M. Rosseel (ORNL)
Paper
Acceptance Criteria for Instrumentation and Control Cabling
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Patrick Ward (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Codi Ferree (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Elijah Connatser (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Casey Sexton (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
Presented by Adam Deatherage (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
Signal Processing of Multiplexed Optical PWM Signals for Sensor Arrays in Nuclear Environments
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Daniel C. Sweeney (ORNL), F. Kyle Reed (ORNL), K.C. Goetz (ORNL), N. Dianne Bull Ezell (ORNL)
Additively Manufactured Strain Sensing for Nuclear Reactor Applications
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Timothy L. Phero (Boise State), Kaelee A. Novich (Boise State), Kiyo T. Fujimoto (INL), Amey R. Khanolkar (INL), Benjamin C. Johnson (Boise State), Michael D. McMurtrey (INL), David Estrada (Boise State), Brian J. Jaques (Boise State)
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