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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Deep Isolation validates its disposal canister for TRISO spent fuel
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation announced it has successfully completed Project PUCK, a government-funded initiative to demonstrate the feasibility and potential commercial readiness of its Universal Canister System (UCS) to manage TRISO spent nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Mandy Bowles Tomaszewski
Alternate Chair:
Benjamin Martin
Session Organizer:
Vladimir Sobes
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Erica McGowan (ANS)
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Comparison of ISO and ANSI/ANS Nuclear Criticality Safety Standards
Douglas G. Bowen (ORNL)
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Neutron Poisoning of Sodium Reactor Experiment Material for Disposition
Tracy Stover (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions), Jaclyn Fitzpatrick (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions), Sara Shirley (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)
Sandia 7uPCX Critical Experiments Exploring the Effects of Fuel-to-Water Ratio Variations
David E. Ames (Sandia National Laboratories), Gary A. Harms (Sandia National Laboratories), Rafe D. Campbell (Sandia National Laboratories), Christina B. Hanson (Sandia National Laboratories)
Development of a Pulsed Slowing-Down-Time Benchmark of Neutron Thermalization in Graphite
E. Lee (North Carolina State Univ.), N. C. Fleming (North Carolina State Univ.), A. I. Hawari (North Carolina State Univ.)
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