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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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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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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
Technical Session|Transient Fuel Behavior and Safety Related Issues
Monday, October 10, 2022|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Adagio/Allegro
Session Chair:
Michelle Bales (NEA)
Alternate Chair:
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractabel)
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Development and Validation of Creep Model at High Temperature for Simulation of Ballooning In MARS-KS/FRAPTRAN Coupled Code
1:30–1:55PM EDT
Hyochan Kim (KAERI), Changhwan Shin (KAERI), Sunguk Lee (KAERI), Joosuk Lee (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Taewan Kim (Incheon Nat'l Univ.)
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Coupled Thermal-Hydraulic and Fuel Performance Simulations of the TWIST LOCA Commissioning Test Series in TREAT
1:55–2:20PM EDT
R.J. Armstrong (INL), C.B. Jensen (INL), C.P. Folsom (INL), N.E. Woolstenhulme (INL)
FRAPTRAN-TE-1.5 Simulation of the Halden LOCA Tests IFA-650.9 and 10: Impact of Model Options and Assumptions
2:20–2:45PM EDT
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel ENGIE), Thomas Drieu (Tractebel ENGIE)
The CODEX-SBO Experiment
2:45–3:10PM EDT
Róbert Farkas (Centre for Energy Research), Imre Nagy (Centre for Energy Research), Nóra Vér (Centre for Energy Research), Zoltán Hózer (Centre for Energy Research), Péter Szabó (Centre for Energy Research), Márta Horváth (Centre for Energy Research)
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