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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|Panel
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Michael Miller (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Heather Dion (LANL)
The National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation initiated the Nonproliferation Stewardship Program (NSP) in 2020 to provide an enduring pipeline of nonproliferation subject matter experts to the DOE/NNSA laboratories. This program provides nonproliferation-relevant science & technology opportunities through modernized facility infrastructure. This session provides an overview of the NSP, highlights on-going efforts in uranium and plutonium processing and describes examples of hands-on experimental work and associated modeling and simulation.
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Session Notes
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — NSP Futures
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — USTC - Experiments
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — USTC - Mod/Sim
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — AMUSE
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The Nonproliferation Stewardship Program
1:00–1:10PM EST
Michael C. Miller (INL)
Futures Group: Workshops and Analyses to Support NSP
1:10–1:20PM EST
Uranium Science and Technology Center: Experimental Uranium Chemistry
1:20–1:30PM EST
Randy Ngelale (ORNL)
Uranium Science and Technology Center: Uranium Modeling & Simulation
1:30–1:40PM EST
Ashley Shields (ORNL)
Athena: Stewarding Capabilities for Nonproliferation in Irradiated Fuel Processing
1:40–1:50PM EST
Brienne Seiner (PNNL)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
The AMUSE Code and its Application to Nonproliferation
1:50–2:00PM EST
Laura E. Maggos (ANL)
Paper
Simulating Processing of Actinides and Developing Expertise (SPADE)
2:00–2:10PM EST
Lawrence Banks (LLNL)
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