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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Former NRC commissioners lend support to efforts to eliminate mandatory hearings
A group of nine former nuclear regulatory commissioners sent a letter Wednesday to the current Nuclear Regulatory Commission members lending support to efforts to get rid of mandatory hearings in the licensing process, which should speed up the process by three to six months and save millions of dollars.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2022)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Redondo
Session Chair:
Minghui Chen
Alternate Chair:
Qiuping Lv
Session Organizer:
W. David Pointer
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Modeling of a Nitrate Salt Natural Circulation Loop
Sheng Zhang (Univ. Michigan), Xiaodong Sun (Univ. Michigan)
Paper
Numerical Methodology for Design and Evaluation of Natural Circulation Systems for MSR Applications
J.S. Narváez Arrúa (Politecnico di Milano), A. Cammi (Politecnico di Milano), S. Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano), P.R. Rubiolo (Univ. Grenoble Alpes)
Determination of Aspect Ratio Influence on Flow and Heat Transfer Behavior in Twisted Elliptical Tubes for Molten Salt Applications
S. Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Dillon R. Shaver (ANL)
Numerical Investigation of Cartridge Heater Performance Applied to the FASTR Main Heater for Molten Chloride Salts
Nolan Goth (ORNL), Thien Nguyen (ORNL), Kevin Robb (ORNL), Ethan Kappes (ORNL)
Investigating Thermal Hydraulics Performance of a New Test Section Designed for the LSTL FLiNaK Using CFD
Ethan Kappes (ORNL), Thien Duy Nguyen (ORNL), Kevin Robb (ORNL)
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