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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD|Cosponsored by ANSTD, OPD
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|4:35–6:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Kristin N. Smith
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (LANL)
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Staff Producer:
Jessica Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Neutronics Analysis of Cold Critical KRUSTY Experiments using MCNP and Serpent
Pavel Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.), Rene Sanchez (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Jesson Hutchinson (LANL), Kristin Smith (Texas A&M Univ.)
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Preliminary Study of Model Predictive Control for Load Follow Operation of Holos Reactor
Sooyoung Choi (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan), Claudio Filippone (HolosGen LLC), Volkan Seker (Univ. of Michigan), Shai Kinast (Univ. of Michigan/Nuclear Research Center Negev)
Linear Stability Analysis of HTR-like Micro-reactors
Volkan Seker (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan), Claudio Filippone (HolosGen LLC), Erez Gilad (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev), Sooyoung Choi (Univ. of Michigan), Shai Kinast (Nuclear Research Center Negev/Univ. of Michigan), Doron Sivan (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev/Israel Atomic Energy Commission)
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