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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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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
T. K. Thompson, G. E. Lohse, B. R. Wheeler
Nuclear Technology | Volume 16 | Number 2 | November 1972 | Pages 396-405
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31204
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The fluidized-bed Waste Calcining Facility (WCF) at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant has been successfully converted from a liquid-metal heating system to a new system called “in-bed combustion,” where a hydrocarbon fuel is burned directly in the fluidized bed to supply the heat necessary to calcine radioactive wastes. Significant accomplishments demonstrated during the first processing campaign using in-bed combustion heating were an onstream time of 100% over the total run duration of 156 days of radioactive operation, a capacity increase of ∼15%, and demonstration of the safety and reliability of the process and control systems.