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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
2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Standards Program
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NWMO to select Canadian repository site this year
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization, a not-for-profit organization responsible for the long-term management of the country’s intermediate- and high-level radioactive waste, is set to select a site for a deep geologic repository by the end of the year.
Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Tara Pandya (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NC State Univ.)
Student Producer:
Aaron Tamashiro (Oregon State Univ.)
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The Limited Linear Source Approximation of the Method of Characteristics for Mitigating Negative Sources
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Sooyoung Choi (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
Paper
The Legendre Polynomial Axial Expansion Method
1:45–2:10PM EDT
Nicholas F. Herring (Univ. of Michigan), Benjamin S. Collins (ORNL), Thomas J. Downar (Univ. of Michigan)
Linear Source Approximation of Angle Dependent Axial Source for Three-Dimensional Neutron Transport
2:10–2:35PM EDT
Jiwon Choe (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology)
Spatial Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applied to the Slice Balance Approach
2:35–3:00PM EDT
Michael W. Hackemack (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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