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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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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EnergySolutions awarded $84.6M in nuclear navy contracts
Utah-based EnergySolutions has announced it has been awarded two contracts worth a combined $84.6 million from the U.S. Navy to support waste management operations across multiple Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program sites. According to the company, the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts will enable the secure transportation, receipt, processing, recycling and reduction, and disposal of nuclear materials from key naval sites nationwide.
Technical Session|Nonproliferation, Security, and Safeguards
Saturday, April 5, 2025|1:40–3:00PM MDT|Gran Quivera 1
Session Chair:
Yuliia Trujillo
Alternate Chair:
Matthew J. Lazaric
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Spectral Feature Selection Approaches for Weapons Grade Plutonium Classification with GADRAS-DRF
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Tanner Heatherly (Oregon State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State)
Paper
Improvements in Line Broadening for Simulating Microcalorimetric Gamma Spectroscopy
2:00–2:20PM MDT
James T. Cahill (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Patience Obasi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Feynman-Y Measurements of Cm-244 and Cf-252 Sources with Organic Scintillators
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Oscar P. Stennes (Univ. Michigan), Flynn B. Darby (Univ. Michigan), Juliann R. Lamproe (Univ. Michigan), Shaun D. Clarke (Univ. Michigan), Sara A. Pozzi (Univ. Michigan)
Modeling of Scintillation and Semiconductor Detectors for Nonproliferation Applications
2:40–3:00PM MDT
Tyrell B. Simmons (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Aristidis Loumis (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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