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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Michigan/Michigan State
Session Chair:
Annabelle Le Coq
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Yttrium Hydride Neutron Irradiations in the High Flux Isotope Reactor
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Adrian Schrell (ORNL), Caitlin A. Kohnert (LANL), Kory Linton (ORNL), Annabelle Le Coq (Materials Science & Technology Division), Mahmut N. Cinbiz (ORNL)
Paper
ROADRUNNER: a MiniFuel Experiment to Collect Irradiation Performance Data on Uranium Nitride Specimens using the High Flux Isotope Reactor
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Annabelle Le Coq (Materials Science & Technology Division), Denise Adorno Lopes (ORNL), Adrian Schrell (ORNL), Grant W. Helmreich (ORNL), Peter Doyle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Joshua T. White (LANL), Nathan Capps (ORNL), Jason M. Harp (ORNL), Kory Linton (ORNL), Elizabeth S. Sooby (University of Texas San Antonio)
Exploration of 232Th Fast Fission Products using Plastic Nuclear Track Detectors for Future Fission-Fusion Fragment Rocket Application
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Sandeep Puri (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and AstronomyTexas Tech University), Noah D'Amico (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University), Cuikun Lin (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University), Ian D. Jones (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University), Andrew K. Gillespie (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University), Bo Zhao (College of Arts and Sciences Microscopy, Texas Tech University), Ryan Weed (Positron Dynamics), Robert Duncan (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University)
Advanced Characterization of Irradiated Ga2O3: Unveiling Vacancy Defects through Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Shams Noor (NCSU), Ming Liu (NCSU), Lucia Rebeca Gomez Hurtado (NCSU), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU), Ge Yang (NCSU)
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