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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Hanford begins removing waste from 24th single-shell tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said crews at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., have started retrieving radioactive waste from Tank A-106, a 1-million-gallon underground storage tank built in the 1950s.
Tank A-106 will be the 24th single-shell tank that crews have cleaned out at Hanford, which is home to 177 underground waste storage tanks: 149 single-shell tanks and 28 double-shell tanks. Ranging from 55,000 gallons to more than 1 million gallons in capacity, the tanks hold around 56 million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste resulting from plutonium production at the site.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Palm A
Session Chair:
Matthew Denman (Kairos Power)
Alternate Chair:
Aslak Stubsgaard
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Literature Review of Preliminary Initiating Events for a Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor Conceptual Design
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Megan Harkema (Vanderbilt Univ.), Irfan Ibrahim (Vanderbilt Univ.), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics), Eric Thornsbury (EPRI)
Paper
On the Applicability of the General Transient Initiating Event Group for Advanced Reactors
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Mostafa Hamza (NCSU), Huafei Liao (X-energy), Mark Cursey (Jensen Hughes), Karl Fleming (Technology Insights), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
The State of Art of the Human Failure Events Dependency Analysis Methods
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Mostafa Hamza (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Management of Risks Associated with Application of Novel Materials in Novel Operating Environments in Novel Reactor Designs
4:15–4:35PM PDT
R. Youngblood (INL), S. Ferrara (INL)
Risk Metrics for Advanced Reactors
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Eric Thornsbury (EPRI), Stephen Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jeffrey Julius (Jensen Hughes), Chloe Howard (Jensen Hughes)
Presented by Doug Hance (EPRI)
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