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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD|Cosponsored by RPD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Fantail
Session Chair:
Catherine M. Percher
Alternate Chair:
Theresa E. Cutler
Session Organizer:
Benjamin Martin
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The Prompt Fission Uranium Neutron Spectrum (PFUNS) Experiment: Critical Configurations and Irradiations
1:00–1:20PM EST
J. Hutchinson (LANL), T. Cutler (LANL), M. Gooden (LANL), T. Grove (LANL), J. Lee (LANL), D. Neudecker (LANL), R. Sanchez (LANL), N. Whitman (LANL), R. Weldon (LANL), N. Wynne (LANL)
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Gamma Neutron Correlated Noise of the EUCLID Critical Experiment
1:20–1:40PM EST
Cole Kostelac (LANL), Robert Weldon (LANL), Jesson Hutchinson (LANL), Ayodeji Alajo (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Chlorine Validation Through Critical Integral Experiments
1:40–2:00PM EST
Eric Aboud (LLNL), Allan Krass (LLNL), Ruby Araj (LLNL), Catherine Percher (LLNL), Daniel Siefman (LLNL), David Heinrichs (LLNL), Theresa Cutler (LANL)
Status of the CERBERUS Evaluation for the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) Handbook
2:00–2:20PM EST
Kelsey Amundson (LANL), Zachariah Lemke (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL)
Assessment of Measurement Uncertainties in the Jupiter High-240 Experiment
2:20–2:40PM EST
John D. Bess (JFoster & Assoc.), Alexander B. Brown (LANL), Joetta M. Goda (LANL), Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL), Cole M. Kostelac (LANL), Geordie E. McKenzie (LANL), Alexander T. McSpaden (LANL), David C. Shepherd (LANL), Nicholas W. Thompson (LANL)
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