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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.
Meeting Spotlight
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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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.
Career Fair Session
Thursday, April 8, 2021|1:00–2:00PM EDT
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Session Chair:
Stephanie Pitts (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Thomas Steele (INL)
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NCSU)
Track Organizer:
Session Producers:
Barbara Oliveira dos Santos (NCSU)
INL is the nation’s lead laboratory for nuclear energy research, development, demonstration and deployment and we are engaged in the mission of ensuring the nation’s energy security with safe, competitive and sustainable energy systems and unique national and homeland security capabilities. Presenter Details Dr. Stephanie Pitts will represent INL for the Spotlight Session. Dr. Pitts is a research staff member in INL’s computational mechanics and materials department within the nuclear fuels and materials research division. Dr. Pitts graduated from Washington State University with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. As a student, she participated in graduate student internships at INL and through those experiences continued her career becoming a research staff member upon graduation.
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