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Nuclear Installations Safety
Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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WIPP’s SSCVS: A breath of fresh air
This spring, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that it had achieved a major milestone by completing commissioning of the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) facility—a new, state-of-the-art, large-scale ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the DOE’s geologic repository for defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in New Mexico.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Monday, June 13, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Malibu
Session Chair:
Jake Quincey (Oregon State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Troy Munro
Session Organizer:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Impact of Diffusion Parameters on Cs and Sr Release from TRISO Fuel Particles at High Temperature
Seokbin Seo (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Brian D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Graphite in Fluoride Salts Reactors: Tritium Sequestration, Tribology, and Salt Infiltration
Lorenzo Vergari (Univ. California, Berkeley), Raluca Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Density Functional Theory van der Waals Corrections for Simulating Fluoride and Chloride Molten Salts
Stephen T. Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Shubhojit Banerjee (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Rajni Chahal (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell)
Digestion of FLiNaK for Elemental Analysis with ICP-OES
S. Mastromarino (Univ. California, Berkeley), A. Kennedy (Univ. California, Berkeley), R.O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Probing Speciation of Light Elements in Molten Salts by Electrochemistry, High Temperature Liquid NMR, and Neutron Diffraction
Haley Williams (Univ. California, Berkeley), Nathanael Gardner (Univ. California, Berkeley), Mark Asta (Univ. California, Berkeley), Boris Khaykovich (MIT), Sven C. Vogel (LANL), Ian Farnan (Univ. Cambridge), Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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