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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.
Meeting Spotlight
International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Michigan/Michigan State
Session Chair:
Rongjie Song
Alternate Chair:
Caleb P. Massey
Session Organizer:
Jake R. Quincey
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Compositionally Graded Transition Joints Between Hastelloy N and 316 Stainless Steel for Enhanced Performance in Molten Salt Reactors
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Yong Yang (Univ. Florida), Alejandro Corrales (Univ. Florida)
Paper
Powder Bed Fusion of Polymer-Ceramic Composites for Neutron Radiation Shielding
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Arturo Hernandez-Barreto (The University of Texas at Austin), Desiderio Kovar (The University of Texas at Austin), Sheldon Landsberger (The University of Texas at Austin)
Mechanical and Microstructural Differences Between Neutron Irradiated and Thermally Aged SS-316H Produced via Laser Powder Bed Fusion
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Caleb P. Massey (ORNL), Tim G. Lach (ORNL), Stephen A. Taller (ORNL), Geeta Kumari (ORNL), Jesse W. Werden (ORNL), Matthew Boebinger (ORNL), Annabelle L. Coq (ORNL), Patrick Champlin (ORNL), Nick G. Russell (ORNL), Kory Linton (ORNL)
Deformation Behavior of Conventionally and Additively Manufactured SS316L Under Creep and Creep-Fatigue Conditions
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Mahmoud Y. Hawary (NCSU), K.L. Murty (NCSU), Nadia Kouraytem (Utah State University)
Microstructural Evolution of Irradiated LPBF 316 Stainless Steel Using Neutrons and Ions
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Stephen A. Taller (Accelerator Applications Division), Wei-Ying Chen (ANL), Timothy G. Lach (ORNL), Alec Pfundheller (TAMU), Mohammad Umar F. Khan (Univ. Michigan)
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