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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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WIPP improves utility shaft safety, begins infrastructure project
Harrison Western Shaft Sinkers (HWSS), the company drilling a new utility shaft at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, has retained a safety culture expert following a near-miss accident in the shaft late last year. The safety expert will conduct monthly facilitated discussions with crews working on the shaft to reinforce expectations for identifying concerns regarding unsafe circumstances, according to a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB).
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Stephanie Bruffey (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Mich Leana (ANS)
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Comparing HALEU Demand Among Advanced Reactor Fuel Cycle Transitions
Amanda M. Bachmann (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kathryn D. Huff (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Paper
Electrochemical Behavior of Co, Ni in Molten LiCl-KCl for Decontamination of Radioactive Wastes
Seokjoo Yoon (KAIST), Sungyeol Choi (KAIST)
Structural Prediction of Actinide-Bearing Hollandites for Nuclear Waste Forms
Amir M. Mofrad (Univ. of South Carolina), Juliano Schorne-Pinto (Univ. of South Carolina), Matthew S. Christian (Univ. of South Carolina), Theodore M. Besmann (Univ. of South Carolina)
Decomposition of Organoiodides using Electric Discharge as a Pretreatment Process for Adsorption
Chaithanya Balumuru (Univ. of Idaho), John Stanford (Univ. of Idaho), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho), Krishnan Raja (Univ. of Idaho), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
Tritium Absorption on Graphene
Jungkyu Park (Kennesaw State Univ.), Bryce Atchley (Kennesaw State Univ.), Erica Wu (Wheeler High School), Eduardo B. Farfán (Kennesaw State Univ.)
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