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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
2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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Nuclear new build procurement considerations
It may seem counterintuitive, but the best time to enhance the ability to support operations and maintenance for a new plant is before construction starts. This is one of many lessons learned by the currently operating nuclear fleet. As construction and startup of many nuclear facilities was completed, it quickly became evident that the ability to efficiently support operations and maintenance was limited. Most of the information necessary to establish and manage procurement of spare and replacement items, maintenance, and configuration of the facilities was unavailable and had to be gathered on a case-by-case, “on-demand” basis. Absence of necessary information and the associated challenges resulted in the need for staff augmentation and multiyear-long projects to develop equipment bills of material and maintenance programs and to perform technical evaluations for the huge quantities of spare and replacement items being requested.
Technical Session
Monday, July 22, 2024|10:00–11:50AM CDT|Madison Ballroom
Session Chair:
Sunday C. Aduloju
Alternate Chair:
Iole Palermo
Session Organizer:
Paul P. Wilson
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An Open-Source Digital Engineering Pipeline for Enabling In-silico Design and Qualification of Tritium Breeding Devices
10:00–10:25AM CDT
H. Brooks (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), C. Byers (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Davis (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), S. Dixon (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Dubas (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), L. Fletcher (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), L. Humphrey (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), S. Mungale (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), P. Shriwise (ANL)
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FENIX: Toward a Fully Integrated Multiphysics Framework for Plasma Facing Component Modeling
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Pierre-Clement A. Simon (INL), Casey T. Icenhour (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Logan H. Harbour (INL), Derek Gaston (INL), Masashi Shimada (INL), Grayson Gall (NCSU), Amanda M. Lietz (NCSU), Mahmoud Eltawila (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Helen Brooks (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
Scalable Open Source Multiphysics Tools for Induction Heating Simulations of Fusion Components in Electromagnetic Fields
10:50–11:10AM CDT
A. I. Blair (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), H. Bergallo Rocha (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), E. Palmer (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), W. Ellis (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Davis (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
VERTEX-CFD: A Multiphysics Solver for Fusion Applications
11:10–11:30AM CDT
Marco Delchini (ORNL), Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Arpan Sicar (ORNL), Stuart Slattery (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL), Ryan Glasby (ORNL), Franklin Curtis (ORNL)
Multiphysics Modeling of the Electromagnetic Loads on the First Wall During Plasma Disruptions
11:30–11:50AM CDT
Sunday Aduloju (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Paul Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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