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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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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness (CNTA) is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award, as well as for its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented in the fall as part of CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
Technical Session|Fuel Management
Monday, July 21, 2025|10:00AM–12:05PM EDT|Palm Room
Session Chair:
Dave G. Knott
Alternate Chair:
Jeffrey A. Borkowski
Session Organizer:
Scott P. Palmtag
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The CONCORS Software Method for Coupled Code Simulation
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Matthew Adler (Studsvik Scandpower), Jeffrey A. Borkowski (Studsvik Scandpower), Lotfi A. Belblidia (Studsvik Scandpower)
Paper
Recent Developments and Applications of the SOSA Shuffling Sequence Code
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Pieter Wakker (NRG PALLAS), Maarten Brinkman (NRG PALLAS), Henk Gibcus (NRG PALLAS)
Extension of the In-Core Shuffling Algorithm to PWRs in MARLA
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Dave Knott (Studsvik), Christian C. Oyarzun (Studsvik), Tung D. Nguyen (Studsvik), Jeffrey Borkowski (Studsvik)
Novel Evolutionary Algorithm for Solution of Multicycle Core and Fuel Design Optimization
11:15–11:40AM EDT
David J. Kropaczek (Veracity Nuclear), Benjamin S. Collins (Veracity Nuclear), Aaron M. Graham (Veracity Nuclear), Andrew Godfrey (Veracity Nuclear)
Reinforcement Learning for BWR Core-Level Fuel Management
11:40AM–12:00PM EDT
Loukas Leonidas Carayannopoulos (MIT), Michael Holmes (Constellation Energy Generation), Nicholas Szewczyk (Constellation Energy Generation), Kathryn Biegel (Constellation Nuclear), James J. Tusar (Constellation), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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