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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine D
Session Chair:
John H. Jackson (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL)
The MARVEL reactor demonstration is proceeding to deployment with manufacturing underway on long-lead items. This panel will provide a status update on the overall project along with an overview of the TREX-C facility (TREAT Reactor Experiment Cell). A discussion of the safety review for MARVEL, including hazard evaluation will be provided. Additionally an overview of the MARVEL utilization plan will be presented to highlight how MARVEL can be leveraged as a testbed for future users.
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