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My story: Stanley Levinson—ANS member since 1983
Levinson early in his career and today.
As a member of the American Nuclear Society, I have been to many conferences. The International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA ’25), embedded in ANS Annual Meeting in Chicago in June, held special significance for me with the PSA ’25 opening plenary session recognizing the 50th anniversary of the publication of WASH-1400, which helped define my career. Reflecting on that milestone sent me back to 1975, when I was just an undergraduate student studying nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y., focusing on my mechanics, fluids, and thermodynamic classes as well as my first set of nuclear engineering classes. At that time—and many times since—the question “Why nuclear engineering?” was raised.
B. R. Dickey, B. R. Wheeler, J. A. Buckham
Nuclear Technology | Volume 24 | Number 3 | December 1974 | Pages 371-382
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31500
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Candidate processes for commercial high-level waste solidification are radiant-heat spray calcination, rotary-kiln calcination, and fluidized-bed calcination. Radiant-heat spray and rotary-kiln calcination have been studied only on a pilot-plant scale; plant-scale fluidizeded solidification of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission high-level wastes has been operating for more than 10 years. Cold pilotlant studies using the radiant-heat spray and fluidized-bed processes are currently underway on simulated commercial wastes. Encouraging results to date show that the existing fluid-bed solidification process pioneered at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant is applicable to commercial waste processing with some process and equipment modifications. These modifications are mainly in areas connected with uncontrolled heating during postulated collapse of the fluidized bed, off-gas cleanup, and equipment design for compatibility with total remote maintenance.