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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 OPD
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|San Simeon A
Session Chair:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Tim Crook (MCR Performance Solutions)
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Microreactor Deployment for Rapid Power Supply in Emergency/Natural Disaster Situations
Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical), Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical)
Paper
Assessment of Moving Packed Bed Heat Exchangers to Dispatch Process Heat from Micro-Reactors
Zayed Ahmed (Kansas State), Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State)
Presented by T-Ying Lin (Kansas State)
Scaling Siting Criteria and Alternative Licensing Pathways for Micro-Reactors
Edward J. Garcia (MIT), Lucy Nester (MIT), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT)
Opportunities for Advanced Mobile Reactors in Times of Disaster and War
Aaron Horwood (Univ. South Carolina), Travis Knight (Univ. South Carolina)
Locational Variance in Nuclear Micro-Reactor Performance Under Microgrid Conditions
Ryan Dailey (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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