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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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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.
P. J. Sipush, R. A. Kerr, A. P. Ginsberg, T. Morita, L. R. Scherpereel
Nuclear Technology | Volume 31 | Number 1 | October 1976 | Pages 12-31
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31695
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Comprehensive load-follow demonstrations were conducted on Consolidated Edison’s Indian Point, Unit 2 plant located in Buchanan, New York, in August and September of 1974. The purpose was to examine new load-follow procedures recently developed by Westinghouse for pressurized water reactor usage. These procedures are based on constant axial offset (or target flux difference) power-distribution control. Two different modes of load-follow operation, with and without part-length control rods, were performed. The operational feasibility of constant axial offset power-distribution control has been verified as a result of the Indian Point demonstrations.