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Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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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.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EST|Lincoln East
Session Chair:
Lu Makinde (University of South Florida)
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Molten Salt Sampling Techniques and Analytical Approaches
8:00–8:20AM EST
Janine Lambert (INL), Toni Karlsson (INL), Robert Hoover (INL), Ammon Williams (INL), Nathan Hoyt (ANL), Ken Marsden (INL), James King (INL), Jeff Sanders (INL)
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Material Control and Accountancy Approach for Liquid-Fueled Molten Salt Reactors
8:20–8:40AM EST
Karen Koop Hogue (ORNL), Steven Skutnik (ORNL), Louise Evans (ORNL), Matthew Krupcale (ORNL), Rabab Elzohery (ORNL)
Methodology for a Survey of Molten Salt Reactor Feed Monitoring Technologies for Safeguards
8:40–9:00AM EST
Karen Hogue (ORNL), Peter Sobel (ORNL), Steve Skutnik (ORNL), Mathew Swinney (ORNL)
Improved Safeguards of Molten Salt Reactors Using Process Monitoring
9:00–9:20AM EST
Nathan Shoman (Sandia)
Characterizing Impacts of Fast-Spectrum Molten Chloride Salt Reactor Design Choices on Safeguards-Relevant Parameters
9:20–9:40AM EST
Donny Hartanto (ORNL), David Chandler (ORNL), Karen Hogue (ORNL), Greg Westphal (ORNL)
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