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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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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Feinstein Institutes to research novel radiation countermeasure
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, home of the research institutes of New York’s Northwell Health, announced it has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential of human ghrelin, a naturally occurring hormone, as a medical countermeasure against radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome (GI-ARS).
Yasuo Hirose (Retired)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 787-798
The present research intends to investigate some chemical aspects of Molten-Salt Reactors (MSR) specifically in TRU burning application taking a particular interest in the facts under which being misled carelessly by immaturity of the MSR technology as exclusively established for thorium utilization. Topics include density assumption of fuel salt with high actinide concentration; chemical effect of PuF3 fission comparing with that of UF4; suspected validity of the fuel slat as a solution of FLiNaK and an alternative fuel salt constitution procedure. Chemical processes applicable to on-line, front-end and back-end of the Fast Molten Salt Reactor with U-Pu fuel cycle (FMSR-U/Pu) are discussed in encouraging and stimulating its development.