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2023 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 12–15, 2023
Washington, D.C.|Washington Hilton
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NCSU’s advanced research reactor study to be funded by state
North Carolina’s fiscal year 2024 budget for the state has allocated $3 million for North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, to conduct a study to assess the feasibility for the establishment of an advanced nuclear research reactor.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, June 10, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Douglas G. Bowen
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Kevin Reynolds (Consolidated Nuclear Security)
Staff Producers:
Patricia Schroeder (American Nuclear Society)
Kathryn Murdoch (American Nuclear Society)
Subcommittee ANS-8, Operations with Fissile Material Outside Reactors, meets to discuss various technical and administrative aspects of the approximately 20 national consensus standards under its purview. In addition to status and progress updates by representatives of individual working groups, formal presentations on the technical bases of numerical values such as subcritical limits and experiences with applications of particular standards are solicited. Agenda topics such as new and expanded standards are also encouraged.
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