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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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Japanese researchers test detection devices at West Valley
Two research scientists from Japan’s Kyoto University and Kochi University of Technology visited the West Valley Demonstration Project in western New York state earlier this fall to test their novel radiation detectors, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on November 19.
Panel and Technical Session|Fuel Cycles, Waste Management, and Decommissioning
Saturday, April 15, 2023|10:15–11:35AM EDT|Student Union 362B
Session Chair:
Evan Williams (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Harrison Huegen (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Decommissioning & Environmental Sciences and Fuel Cycle & Waste Management Divisions.
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Excess Criticality Mitigation for Pebble Bed Reactor Fuels by Pebble Displacement and Replacement
10:15–10:35AM EDT
Jonathan F. Wing (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Gordon M. Petersen (INL), Robert A. Joseph (INL)
Paper
Incorporation of Metal Taggants into Tetragonal Gamma-UO3
10:35–10:55AM EDT
Nicholas J. Wilson (University of Texas at El Paso), Ashley Shields (ORNL), Eunja Kim (University of Texas at El Paso)
Mapping of the LiCl-NaCl-UCl3 and KCl-NaCl-UCl3 Ternaries
10:55–11:15AM EDT
Ethan A. Schneider (The University of Texas at San Antonio), Thomas C. Kirtley (the University of Texas at San Antonio), Elizabeth S. Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Liangyan Hao (The University of Pittsburgh), Soumya Sridar (The University of Pittsburgh), Wei Xiong (The University of Pittsburgh)
Evaluation of Contamination Limits for Equipment Release for A Former Uranium Mill
11:15–11:35AM EDT
Jillian L. Newmyer (Oregon State)
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