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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
Standards Program
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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U.S. and Japan collaborate on high-burnup fast reactor fuel safety tests at INL
Idaho National Laboratory recently conducted a safety test on high-burnup fast reactor fuel from historic irradiation testing at the lab’s Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II). According to the Department of Energy, which announced the work March 12, it’s the first such safety test to be performed in over 20 years.
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 10, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Douglas Osborn (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Vaibhav Yadav (INL)
Session Producer:
Nora Fitton
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Risk-Informed Access Delay Timeline Development
10:10–10:40AM EST
Douglas M. Osborn (Sandia), Dusty Brooks (Sandia), Andrew Thompson (Sandia)
Paper
Risk-Informed Approaches for Physical Security
10:40–11:10AM EST
Douglas M. Osborn (Sandia), Adam Williams (Sandia), Susan Caskey (Sandia), Andrew Clark (Sandia), Gregory Wyss (Sandia)
Methodology and Application of Physical Security Effectiveness Based on Dynamic Force-on-Force Modeling
11:10–11:40AM EST
Robby Christian (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Stephen Prescott (INL), Shawn St. Germain (INL)
Integrated Safety and Security Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants Using Dynamic Event Trees
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
Brian Cohn (The Ohio State Univ.), Tunc Aldemir (The Ohio State Univ.), Troy Haskin (Sandia), Todd Noel (Sandia), Jeffrey Cardoni (Sandia), Douglas Osborn (Sandia)
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