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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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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Two updated standards on criticality safety published
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently approved two new American Nuclear Society standards covering different aspects of nuclear criticality safety (NCS).
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Avila B
Session Chair:
Sebastian Schunert (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Nick Gentile (LLNL)
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Understanding the Coupled Thermo-Mechanical with Thermal-Hydraulic Effects in Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Systems
Matt Krecicki (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Paper
Transient Simulation of Nuclear Thermal Fuel Specimens in TREAT
Sebastian Schunert (INL), Tian Jing (INL), Mark D. DeHart (INL), Vincent M. Laboure (INL), Ching-Sheng Lin (INL)
Numerical Demonstration of Multiple Actuator Constraint Enforcement Algorithm for a Molten Salt Loop
Akshay J. Dave (ANL), Haoyu Wang (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL)
Full Core Coupled-Physics Simulation of SMR with Prescribed Flow Rate
Jun Fang (ANL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Paul Romano (ANL), Ron Rahaman (ANL), Dillon Shaver (ANL), Steven Hamilton (ORNL)
Spatial Statistical Analysis of a Former Uranium Mine Site in Texas, USA
Mark C. Harvey (Texas Southern Univ.), Nancy L. Glenn Griesinger (Texas Southern Univ.)
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