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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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Nuclear new build procurement considerations
It may seem counterintuitive, but the best time to enhance the ability to support operations and maintenance for a new plant is before construction starts. This is one of many lessons learned by the currently operating nuclear fleet. As construction and startup of many nuclear facilities was completed, it quickly became evident that the ability to efficiently support operations and maintenance was limited. Most of the information necessary to establish and manage procurement of spare and replacement items, maintenance, and configuration of the facilities was unavailable and had to be gathered on a case-by-case, “on-demand” basis. Absence of necessary information and the associated challenges resulted in the need for staff augmentation and multiyear-long projects to develop equipment bills of material and maintenance programs and to perform technical evaluations for the huge quantities of spare and replacement items being requested.
Technical Session|Fusion
Tuesday, October 8, 2024|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Room 4
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Overview of Fusion Safety Program
1:00–1:20PM MDT
Masashi Shimada (INL), Chase N. Taylor (INL), Thomas Fuerst (INL), Adriaan A. Riet (INL), Matthew D. Eklund (INL), Hanns Gietl (INL), L. S. Loftus (INL), Pattrick Calderoni (INL)
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Investigating CAD-based Geometry Workflows for Multiphysics Fusion Problems Using OpenMC and MOOSE
1:20–1:40PM MDT
Mahmoud Eltawila (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Pierre-Clément A. Simon (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Derek R. Gaston (INL)
Kinetic Plasma Simulation in the MOOSE Framework: Verification of Electrostatic Particle In Cell Capabilities
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Grayson S. Gall (North Carolina State University), Logan Harbour (INL), Casey T. Icenhour (INL), Pierre-Clement Simon (INL), Derek Gaston (INL), Amanda Lietz (North Carolina State University)
Developing Multiphysics, Integrated, High-Fidelity, Massively Parallel Computational Capabilities for Fusion Applications Using MOOSE
2:00–2:20PM MDT
Pierre-Clement A. Simon (INL), Casey T. Icenhour (INL), Masashi Shimada (INL), Alexander D. Lindsay (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Logan Harbour (INL), Derek Gaston (INL), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Helen M. Brooks (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), April J. Novak (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Mahmoud Eltawila (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Amanda M. Lietz (North Carolina State University), Grayson S. Gall (North Carolina State University), Carlo Fiorina (Texas A&M University, College Station), Susana Reyes (Xcimer Energy Corporation)
Fusion Superconducting Magnet Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation at Idaho National Laboratory: A Review and Look Ahead
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Casey T. Icenhour (INL)
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