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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC adopts ROP updates
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a significant overhaul of its Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) baseline inspection program that stresses a leaner, more risk-focused inspection process.
This adoption comes just over a month after NRC officials published their findings on the proposed ROP changes. The changes would reduce the number of hours spent annually on direct inspections at U.S. nuclear power plants by 38 percent.
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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