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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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Deep Isolation validates its disposal canister for TRISO spent fuel
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation announced it has successfully completed Project PUCK, a government-funded initiative to demonstrate the feasibility and potential commercial readiness of its Universal Canister System (UCS) to manage TRISO spent nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Advanced Reactors
Tuesday, July 22, 2025|4:05–5:45PM EDT|Room 3
Session Chair:
Steve E. Skutnik
Alternate Chair:
Joe Fuel
Session Organizer:
Scott P. Palmtag
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MARIE: A Python-Based Framework for Comprehensive Fuel Recycling Modeling
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Steve E. Skutnik (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Randy Ngelale (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Laura Arias Chavez (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Robert A. Lefebvre (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jin Whan Bae (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Brianna D. Hiscox (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Leigh R. Martin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Andrew Worrall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Paper
Assessment of Enriched Uranium MOX Fuels and actual MOX Fuels for Plutonium Multi-Recycling in LWRs
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Hervé J. Billat (Electricity of France), Enrico Girardi (EDF R&D), Francois-Xavier de Cordoue (Electricity of France), Pussard Loic (EDF R&D), Guillaume Vaast (Electricity of France), Badiaa AMEKRAZ (Framatome)
Selective Conversion of Transuranic Oxides to Species Soluble in Molten Chloride Salt - Validation of the First Stage of the WATSS Recycling Process
4:55–5:20PM EDT
Jose ZUNIGA (Moltex Energy), Ian SCOTT (Moltex Energy), Connor SMITH (Moltex Energy), James MOFFAT (Moltex Energy), Phil QUAYLE (Moltex Energy), Olivier Gregoire (Moltex Energy), Alexander WARREN (Moltex Energy), Ryan BROWN (Moltex Energy), German C. SANCHEZ (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Lyndsey BRADFORD (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Daniel CLUFF (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Kerri KOVACK (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), David POFF (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Rory O'SULLIVAN (Moltex Energy)
Modeling a Thermal-Spectrum LEU-fueled Molten Salt Reactor Co-fueled with Thorium in SCALE 6.3.1 and Serpent-2
5:20–5:45PM EDT
Erika Moss (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (University of Texas at Austin), Donny Hartanto (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), John P. Carter (Idaho National Laboratory)
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