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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|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Armitage
Session Chair:
Natalie Cannon
Alternate Chair:
Benjamin Martin
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Verified, Archived Library of Inputs and Data (VALID) Online Repository
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Travis M. Greene (ORNL), Robert A. Lefebvre (ORNL)
Paper
Criticality Safety Nuclide Rankings for TRISO Spent Fuel Applications
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Alex Shaw (ORNL), Veronica V. Karriem (ORNL), Walid A. Metwally (ORNL)
Microreactor Assembly Transportation Cask Model for Criticality Safety Basis Assessment
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Zhaopeng Zhong (ANL), Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Cihangir Celik (ORNL)
A New Benchmark Evaluation of Historical Experiments with HEU Cylinders and Annuli with 10-Inch Graphite Reflectors
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Kathryn Worrell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Vladimir Sobes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), William J. Marshall (ORNL)
Criticality Evaluations of Additional Neutron Absorber for LEU+ ATF in Fuel Storage Systems
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Keon il Cha (Sejong Univ.), Kyoon ho Cha (Sejong Univ.)
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