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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NEA report calls for more accurate data on SNF heat decay
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has issued a report calling for more-detailed information on tracking the decay heat of spent nuclear fuel from light water reactors. According to the NEA, the report highlights the increasing importance of accurate decay heat estimations due to evolving fuel characteristics, including higher initial fuel enrichment, increased burn-up rates, and extended reactor cycle lengths.
The report, Summary of the NEA Assessment on Spent Nuclear Fuel Decay Heat for Light Water Reactors, summarizes the findings of a subgroup of the NEA’s Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS), which ran from January 2022 to January 2024.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Santa Monica
Session Chair:
Tejaswini Vaidya (Univ. Idaho)
Alternate Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton/ARPA-E)
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Treatment and conditioning are used to convert radioactive, mixed, and hazardous wastes from various waste processing or used nuclear fuel reprocessing activities into inert waste forms for transportation, storage, and final disposal. The treated and conditioned wastes must ultimately be disposed of in a suitable disposal facility. Multiple disposal options are currently being considered for the most highly radioactive wastes, including geologic repositories and deep borehole disposal. This session discusses advances made in waste form development, reprocessing facility off-gas capture technologies, and disposal facility design and optimization.
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Iron Phosphate Glass Waste Forms to Immobilize Dehalogenated Salt Wastes
Matthew Page (Clemson Univ.), Adam Gootgeld (Clemson Univ.), Ming Tang (Clemson Univ.)
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Advanced Long-Term Environmental Monitoring Systems (ALTEMIS) for Consent-Based Siting of Nuclear Facilities
Haruko Wainwright (MIT), Carol Eddy-Dilek (SRNL)
Adsorption of Radioactive Iodine Using Aged Nanocarbon-Coated Ceramic Substrate
Chaithanya Balumuru (Univ. Idaho), Krishnan Raja (Univ. Idaho), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. Idaho)
Features, Events, and Processes Prioritization for Deep Borehole Disposal Concepts in Crystalline Rock and Shale
Ethan Bates (Deep Isolation), John Midgley (Deep Isolation)
Effects of Storage on Methyl Iodide Adsorption by Mordenite Sorbent
Heinrik Goettsche (Univ. Idaho), Raja Krishnan (Univ. Idaho), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. Idaho)
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