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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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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 6
Session Chair:
Bao-Wen Yang
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Lane Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Update on Out-of-Pile LOCA Experiment
1:00–1:20PM MST
Musa Moussaoui (Oregon State), Trevor Kent Howard (Oregon State), Wade Marcum (Oregon State), Guillaume Mignot (Oregon State), Aaron Weiss (Oregon State)
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Project Overview of Thermal-Hydraulic and Mechanical Behavior of Near-Term ATF Design in Reflood Conditions
1:20–1:40PM MST
WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Cole Dunbar (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Kumar Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), David Kamerman (INL), Robert Armstrong (INL), Hwasung Yeom (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Analysis on the Preliminary Gap Conductance Test with Single Primary Heat Extraction and Removal Emulator
1:40–2:00PM MST
Minseop Song (INL), Zachary D. Sellers (INL), Jeremy L. Hartvigsen (INL), Sunming Qin (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
Initial Horizontal Co-Flow Gas Injection Studies in Water for Liquid Metal Spallation Targets
2:00–2:20PM MST
Justin Weinmeister (ORNL), Elvis Dominguez-Ontiveros (ORNL)
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