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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.
Meeting Spotlight
2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
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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Nuclear fuel cycle reimagined: Powering the next frontiers from nuclear waste
In the fall of 2023, a small Zeno Power team accomplished a major feat: they demonstrated the first strontium-90 heat source in decades—and the first-ever by a commercial company.
Zeno Power worked with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to fabricate and validate this Z1 heat source design at the lab’s Radiochemical Processing Laboratory. The Z1 demonstration heralded renewed interest in developing radioisotope power system (RPS) technology. In early 2025, the heat source was disassembled, and the Sr-90 was returned to the U.S. Department of Energy for continued use.
Technical Session
Monday, September 26, 2022|1:10–3:15PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Douglas Di Julio (European Spallation Source)
Alternate Chair:
Stephane Bourganel (CEA)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Boron-Lined Proportional Counter Sensitivity Determined by Simulation
1:10–1:35PM PDT
Stephane Bourganel (CEA), Laurence Pangault-Granier (CEA), Aly Elayeb (PHOTONIS Nuclear Instrumentation)
Paper
Pulsed Radiation Monitoring Using Ionisation Chamber with Dedicated Integrated Circuit at CERN Antimatter-Facility
1:35–2:00PM PDT
Sarath Kundumattathil Mohanan (CERN), Hamza Boukabache (CERN), Vassili Cruchet (CERN), Daniel Perrin (CERN)
Presented by Stefan Roesler (CERN)
Radon Detection on a Spanish Natural Gas Well Using Electrets and Lucas Cell
2:00–2:25PM PDT
A. Noverques (Politechnic Univ. Valencia), B. Juste (Politechnic Univ. Valencia), B. Mora (GD Energy Systems), A. Arribas (GD Energy Systems), G. Verdu (Politechnic Univ. Valencia)
Optimization of a GaN Microstructured Thermal Neutron Detector Geometry Using MCNP
2:25–2:50PM PDT
Eric Giunta (Kansas State), Micheal Pfeifer (Kansas State), Bryce Davidson (Kansas State), Sanchit Sharma (Kansas State), Keith Huddleston (Kansas State), Nathanael Simerl (Kansas State), Douglas S. McGregor (Kansas State), Walter McNeil (Kansas State), Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State)
Measurement of Response Functions of Enriched Lithium-6 CLYC Scintillator for 1.2 MeV, 5.0 MeV and 14.8 MeV Neutrons
2:50–3:15PM PDT
So Kamada (National Maritime Research Institute), Masayuki Hagiwara (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)
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