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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
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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Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Kendra Long (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NC State Univ.)
Student Producer:
Johnny Klemes (NC State Univ.)
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Two-Dimensional Spherical-Polar Bilinear Discontinuous Discretization for Atmospheric Transport
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Daniel T. Wakeford (LANL), James S. Warsa (LANL)
Paper
Discontinuous-Galerkin Discretization of the Energy-Dependent Fokker-Planck Operator
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Kyle S. Beling (Univ. of New Mexico), James S. Warsa (LANL), Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico), David A. Dixon (LANL)
Discontinuous Galerkin Variable Eddington Factor Methods
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Samuel Olivier (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Terry S. Haut (LLNL), Ben C. Yee (LLNL)
A Finite Volume Method for the Fermi Pencil-Beam Equation
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Antonios G. Mylonakis (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), Mohammad Asadzadeh (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
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