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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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State legislation: Illinois bill aims to lift state’s remaining nuclear moratorium
A bill that would fully repeal the state’s entire moratorium on new nuclear projects survived a key deadline in the Illinois General Assembly last week.
To stay afloat in the spring legislative session, bills needed to be assigned to committee by March 21, and state Sen. Sue Rezin’s Senate Bill 1527 now sits with the Senate’s Energy and Public Utilities committee for review.
Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Friday, April 4, 2025|10:30–11:50AM MDT|Santa Ana AB
Session Chair:
Mekiel Olguin
Alternate Chair:
Liam Pohlmann
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Development of SAM-OpenModelica Coupled Simulation for Co-Nuclear Concept Modeling
10:30–10:50AM MDT
Yifan Mao (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Travis Mui (ANL), Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL)
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Improving Confidence in Computational Methods for Helium Transmutation Calculations
10:50–11:10AM MDT
Alexander Birmingham (Univ. Michigan), Justin Hamil (Univ. Michigan), Kevin G. Field (Univ. Michigan)
Benchmarking Project Peacock Against the ICSBEP Benchmarks and MCNP
11:10–11:30AM MDT
William Madsen (Brigham Young Univ.), William C. Dawn (Studsvik Scandpower), Charles A. Wemple (Studsvik Scandpower)
Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to theTemperature Reconstruction of Fuel Rods.
11:30–11:50AM MDT
Luiz C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State), Victor Coppo Leite (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Lise Charlot (INL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Lander Ibarra (ANL), Arthur T. Motta (Penn State)
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