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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC Downtown
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Supreme Court rules against Texas in interim storage case
The Supreme Court voted 6–3 against Texas and a group of landowners today in a case involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, reversing a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the state and landowners Fasken Land and Minerals (Fasken) standing to challenge the license.
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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