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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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GAO: Grouting Hanford tank waste could cost more than $1.1B
Workers move a container of treated tank waste as part of Hanford’s Test Bed Initiative to grout around 2,000 gallons of LAW for off-site disposal. (Photo: DOE)
Grouting Hanford’s low-level radioactive liquid tank waste could cost between $480 million and $1.1 billion, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office, which has repeatedly found that grouting (immobilizing waste in a concrete-like mixture) can accelerate cleanup at the Hanford Site and save billions of dollars when compared to mixing the waste with molten glass through the vitrification process.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jason Hearne (Texas A&M Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. of California Berkeley)
Session Organizer:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Staff Producer:
Susan Gallier (ANS)
This is a standing RPD session with papers on all reactor physics design, validation and operational experience topics of contemporary interest.
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Reactor Physics Analyses of the Big-BUSTER Testing Environment in TREAT
John D. Bess (INL), Nicolas E. Woolstenhulme (INL), Matthew R. Ramirez (INL), Wesley T. Smith (INL), Aaron S. Epiney (INL)
Paper
Review: Monte Carlo Neutronics Validation Studies of Burned Nuclear Material
Sean P. Martinson (Texas A&M Univ.), Sunil S. Chirayath (Texas A&M Univ.)
nTRACER Solutions to C5G7-TD Neutron Noise Simulation Benchmark
Junsu Kang (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Han Gyu Joo (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
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Flexible Cross Section Generation in OpenMC with TOGA (Tool for Optimization and Group-Structure Analysis)
Miriam A. Kreher (MIT), Jack Galloway (LANL), Blake Wilkerson (ORNL), Joshua Richard (LANL)
Design and Heat Generation Rate Analysis of LEU-UAlx Dispersion Target Plates for Irradiation in the High Flux Isotope Reactor
Nolan Goth (ORNL), Trevor Howard (ORNL), Jorge Navarro (ORNL), Eliott Fountain (ORNL), Nesrin Cetiner (ORNL), Chris Bryan (ORNL)
