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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Energy Secretary to speak at the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
In less than two weeks, the American Nuclear Society’s second annual conference of the year, the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo, will come to Washington, D.C.
Today, ANS is announcing that Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be joining the list of nuclear leaders slated to speak at the conference.
Click here to register for the meeting, which will take place November 9–12 in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton. Be sure to do so before November 7 to take advantage of priority pricing.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Monday, June 8, 2020|3:30–5:15PM EDT|4
Session Chair:
Christina Leggett (DOE)
Alternate Chair:
Stephanie H. Bruffey
Staff Producer:
Daniel Goldberg (American Nuclear Society)
The need for extended dry and wet storage and potential transportation of commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is of heightened interest to various stakeholders. In this paper session, speakers will present recent studies and activities associated with the safe storage and transportation (e.g., advances in, demonstrations of, studies of, etc. cask/overpack system designs or site infrastructure improvements) of commercial SNF.
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Analysis of Potential Standardized Canister Deployments at Commercial US Nuclear Reactor Sites
Robby Joseph (ORNL), Riley Cumberland (ORNL), Rob Howard (ORNL)
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Rapid Analytic Determination of Dry Cask Storage Canister Internal Temperatures
Evan T. Palmer (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Matthew M. Barry (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Development of a CFD Model for the Drying of Aluminum-clad Spent Fuel
Nathaniel Cooper (Univ. of South Carolina), Jamil Khan (INL), Tanvir Farouk (INL), Yi Wang (INL), Rebecca Smith (INL), Travis Knight (Univ. of South Carolina)
Inverse Depletion of Used Nuclear Fuel: a Bayesian Approach
Bassam A. Khuwaileh (Univ. of Sharjah), Fatima I. Al-Hamadi (Univ. of Sharjah), Mohammad A. Al-Shabi (Univ. of Sharjah), Walid A. Metwally (Univ. of Sharjah)
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