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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
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DOE opens funding opportunity for HALEU transport packages
The Department of Energy announced November 19 that up to $16 million is available through a new High-Assay Low-Enrichment Transportation Package funding opportunity to research, develop, and acquire Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing for transportation of HALEU—using new or modified packages.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Coral B
Session Chair:
Izabela Gutowska (OSU)
Alternate Chair:
Matthew Jasica (ANL)
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Reactor Vessel Cooling System for the GA-EMS Fast Modular Reactor: Scaled Experiments and Analysis
10:00–10:20AM EST
S.K. Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), I. Jentz (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), W.H. Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), B. Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), H. Choi (General Atomics), J. Bolin (General Atomics)
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Development of an Improved RELAP5-3D Model for the High Temperature Test Facility
10:20–10:40AM EST
Robert F. Kile (INL), Aaron S. Epiney (INL)
Effects of Upper Chimney Throttling on Two-Phase Flow in a Large-Scale Water-Based RCCS
10:40–11:00AM EST
Matthew J. Jasica (ANL), Qiuping Lv (ANL), Darius D. Lisowski (ANL), Mitch Farmer (ANL)
Effect of Water Tank Inlet Elevation on Performance of a Large Scale Water-Based RCCS
11:00–11:20AM EST
Qiuping Lv (ANL), Matthew Jasica (ANL), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Mitch Farmer (ANL)
Contact Thermal Resistance Modeling for Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulations in Gas-Cooled Pebble Bed Reactors
11:20–11:40AM EST
Dezhi Dai (ANL), Haomin Yuan (ANL), Prasad Vegendla (ANL), Adrian Tentner (ANL)
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