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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Malibu
Session Chair:
J. Rory Kennedy
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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In-Situ High-Energy X-Ray Diffraction Study on Deformation Behavior of Neutron-Irradiated Fe-9%Cr
Xuan Zhang (ANL), Dominic Piedmont (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), James F. Stubbins (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jun-Sang Park (ANL), Peter Kenesei (ANL), Jonathan Almer (ANL), Meimei Li (ANL)
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In Situ Synchrotron Radiation Diffraction Study of Neutron-Irradiated Yttrium Hydrides During Thermal Treatments
M. Nedim Cinbiz (INL), Mehmet Topsakal (Brookhaven ), Annabelle Le Coq (ORNL), Kory Linton (ORNL)
Elemental Segregation and Precipitation After Ion-Irradiation to High Damages in Alloy 709
Dominic Piedmont (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Xiang Liu (Zhejiang Univ.), Hyosim Kim (LANL), Frank Graner (TAMU), Lin Shao (TAMU), T.-L. Sham (ANL), James Stubbins (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
High Throughput Study of Hardening and Void Swelling in Ion Irradiated High Entropy Alloys
Benoit Queylat (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Moorehead (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Phalgun Nelaturu (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Nathan Curtis (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Dan Thoma (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mukesh Bacchav (INL), Dane Morgan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Adrien Couet (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Presented by Hongliang Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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