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Division Spotlight
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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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Ales Necas (TAE)
Staff Producer:
David Strutz (American Nuclear Society)
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MTF at General Fusion
Michel Georges Laberge (General Fusion)
Paper
First Light Fusion: Solving the Problem of Fusion Power with the Simplest Machine Possible
Jamie Darling (First Light Fusion Ltd), Paul Holligan, Luis Sebastian Caballero Bendixsen, Tom Clayson, Oli Hall, Simon Hall, James Parkin, Hugo Doyle, Nick Hawker
SHINE: A commercial approach to solving the big challenges with nuclear technology
Greg Piefer (SHINE Medical Techologies LLC)
A faster route to fusion power: The high field spherical tokamak with high temperature superconducting magnets
David Kingham (Tokamak Energy Ltd)
Research and development needs of sustained spheromak configuration for fusion energy applications
Derek A. Sutherland (CTFusion, LLC)
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