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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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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Direct waste transfer process quickens at Savannah River Site
The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site this month marked the first direct transfer of decontaminated waste from the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) to the Saltstone Production Facility (SPF). This is a new step in optimizing waste processing, according to the DOE.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Andrew E. Thomas
Alternate Chair:
James Baciak (University of Florida)
Session Organizer:
Lisa M. Marshall (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Paul LaTour (American Nuclear Society)
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PLuS Alliance Nuclear Engineering Online Course Exchange Program
Keith E. Holbert (Arizona State Univ.), John Fletcher (Univ. New South Wales), Patrick A. Burr (Univ. New South Wales), Edward G. Obbard (Univ. New South Wales)
Paper
Neutronic and Thermal Hydraulic Calculations for Subcritical Fissile Solution System Analysis
Seung Jun Kim (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Andrew W. Larsen (LANL), Kelley M. Verner (LANL), Joetta M. Goda (LANL), Alexander J. Wass (LANL)
Flawless Fusion in Less Than 60 Seconds Over Similar or Dissimilar Material
Paul Cheng (Univ. Alberta)
Considerations for Bringing New Suppliers into the Nuclear Supply Chain
Elina Teplinsky (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman), Anne Leidich (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman)
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