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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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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Technical Session
Thursday, November 11, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Robertas Alzbutas (Lithuanian Energy Institute)
Alternate Chair:
Robert Budnitz (Lawrence Berkeley Lab (ret))
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
John Greenwood
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Screening Process for Individual and Correlated External Hazards - Application on the 1300MWe French Series
10:10–10:40AM EST
Jeremy Gaudron (EDF), Cécile Luzoir (EDF), Yannick Lefebvre (EDF), Hugo Jadot (EDF)
Paper
Probabilistic Framework for Description of Radioiodine Behavior at Fukushima Accidents
10:40–11:10AM EST
Adolf Rydl (INSET)
Reference
Analysis of Criteria Applicable to the Screening Approach Used in PSA for External Events
11:10–11:40AM EST
Thiago Padilha da Silva (Navy Technological Center in São Paulo), Marcos Coelho Maturana (Navy Technological Center in São Paulo), Miguel Mattar Neto (Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares), Patricia da Silva Pagetti de Oliveira (Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares)
Implementation of Methodology for Maintenance-Induced Internal Floods
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
Robert J. Wolfgang (Jensen Hughes), Samuel Falvo (Jensen Hughes)
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