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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
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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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 FCWMD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EST|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Harish Reddy Gadey
Alternate Chair:
Patrick Moosir
Session Organizer:
Michael Smith (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte)
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Progress in the Verification and Validation Efforts for START: A Spent Fuel Routing Tool
8:00–8:20AM EST
Harish R. Gadey (PNNL), Kacey D. McGee (PNNL), Patrick D. Royer (PNNL)
Paper
Predicting Stress at Deformed Regions of SAVY-4000 Nuclear Material Storage Containers with an Experimentally Validated Finite Element Analysis Model
8:20–8:40AM EST
Joseph D. Hafen (LANL), Steven Lukow (LANL), Samrat Choudhury (Univ. Mississippi), Jonathan Gigax (LANL)
Scoping Analysis of Fuel Costs and Spent Fuel Volume for Small Pressurized Water Reactors
8:40–9:00AM EST
Assil Halimi (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Disposal MOX: A Combined Study of its Fabrication and Disposability
9:00–9:20AM EST
Jack Rolfe (Lancaster Univ.), Ian Robertson (Lancaster Univ.), Michael Bromley (Lancaster Univ.), Colin Boxall (Lancaster Univ.), Dave Goddard (National Nuclear Laboratory), Rosie Hibberd (Nuclear Waste Services)
Development of a Simple Improved Repository Risk Assessment Measure
9:20–9:40AM EST
Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Allen Croff (Vanderbilt Univ.), Irfan Ibrahim (Vanderbilt Univ.)
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