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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
Technical Session|Fuel Cycle and Waste Management (FCWMD)
Monday, June 1, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Governor's Square 10
Session Chair:
Kaushik Banerjee (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Michael Smith (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte)
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Considerations in Solids Formation for Alniflex Processes
1:00–1:20PM MDT
Jarrod Gogolski (SRNL), Thanh-Tam Truong (SRNL), Robert Pierce (SRNL)
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Periodic Heat Mixing and Peak Buffer Temperature in Multi-Batch SNF Emplacement
1:20–1:40PM MDT
Ji Eon Kim, Samuel Park, Sungyeol Choi (Seoul National University)
Illitization Behavior of Bentonite Buffer Materials under High-Temperature Conditions as a Function of Groundwater Potassium Ion Concentration in Deep Geological Repositories for High-Level Radioactive Waste
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Sieun Park, Junhyuk Ham (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Seunghyun Kim, Yunju Lee (Korea Institute of Materials Science), Ji Hyun Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology)
A Paradigm Shift for High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal: Radionuclides’ Intrinsic Properties for Long-term Safety
2:00–2:20PM MDT
Haruko M. Wainwright (MIT), Shaheen A. Dewji (Georgia Tech), John S. McCloy, Brian A. Powell (Clemson Univ.), R. A. Borrelli (University of Idaho), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), Jeffrey Wang, Liam S. Hines, Dauren Sarsenbayev, Craig H. Benson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Process-Level Radionuclide Screening for Deep Geological Disposal in South Korea
2:20–2:40PM MDT
MINSEO CHO (Hanyang University), Kwang Pyo Choi, Mi Seon Jung (KORAD), Hee Jae Ju (KAERI)
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