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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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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|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Kaibab
Session Chair:
Simon M. Pimblott
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Hydrogen Migration Analysis with Code After Extended Dry Storage
1:00–1:20PM MST
Chansoo Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Youho Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Paper
Analytical Homogenization Techniques Applied to the Fickian Diffusion: Effective Diffusivity Coefficient
1:20–1:40PM MST
Aysenur Toptan (INL), Wen Jiang (INL), Jason D. Hales (INL)
Mechanical Integrity Study of Zirconium with Radial Hydrides via Image Analysis
1:40–2:00PM MST
Dahyeon Woo (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Youho Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Integral LOCA Behavior Experiment to Study Ballooning, Burst and FFRD
2:00–2:20PM MST
Hyunwoo Yook (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Youho Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Solubility Studies of CeCl3 in LaCl3/LiCl-KCl Eutectic Salt and NdCl3/LiCl-KCl Eutectic Salt System
2:20–2:40PM MST
Tejaswini Vaidya (Univ. Idaho), Haiyan Zhao (Univ. Idaho), Shelly Li (Univ. Utah)
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