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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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How robust is HALEU from a nonproliferation perspective?
Shikha Prasad
High-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) has emerged as a popular fuel choice for advanced small modular reactors due to its long power production periods before refueling. It is currently being pursued by TerraPower, X-energy, BWX Technologies, Kairos, Oklo, and other reactor companies. HALEU has a uranium-235 enrichment ranging from 5 percent to 20 percent, whereas traditional LWRs use low-enriched uranium fuel enriched up to 5 percent.
HALEU will provide power for longer durations, compared with traditional LWRs. But could it also provide an opportunity for more rapid proliferation, as is speculated in a 2023 National Academy of Sciences report on advanced nuclear reactors (nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26630/)?
If a nuclear proliferator conspires to divert fresh nuclear fuel for weapons production when it has not been used in a reactor, the effort required in separative work units (SWUs) to enrich U-235 from 5 percent to 90 percent and that required to enrich from 20 percent to 90 percent are both very small, compared with the effort required to enrich U-235 from its natural abundance to the initial 5 percent.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fundamental Irradiation Damage
Monday, December 11, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Maylise Nastar (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA))
Alternate Chair:
Flyura Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki)
Track Organizers:
Steve Zinkle (University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mitra Taheri (Johns Hopkins University)
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Data-Driven Pseudo Real-Time Analysis of Defect Evolution
3:10–3:50PM CST
K. Burns (Univ. Virginia), E.J. Lang (Univ. New Mexico), C.A. Kohnert (LANL), K. Hattar (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Understanding Bias and Error in Human and Machine Learning Quantification of Swelling in Irradiated Materials
3:50–4:10PM CST
Gabriella Bruno (Univ. Michigan), Matthew J. Lynch (Univ. Michigan), Ryan Jacobs (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Nicholas Clancy (Univ. Michigan), Dane D. Morgan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Kevin G. Field (Univ. Michigan)
Microstructure Evolutions of Nuclear Materials Under Ion Beam Irradiations Using the Michigan In-situ Ion Irradiation Facility
4:10–4:30PM CST
K. Sun (Univ. Michigan), F. Naab (Univ. Michigan), K.G. Field (Univ. Michigan), G.S. Was (Univ. Michigan)
Comparison of Radiation Effects in Harvested Stainless Steel Baffle Former Bolts and HFIR Irradiated Wrought and Additively-Manufactured Stainless Steel
4:30–4:50PM CST
T.G. Lach (ORNL), M.N. Gussev (ORNL), T.S. Byun (ORNL), A.G. LeCoq (ORNL), K.D. Linton (ORNL), X. Chen (ORNL)
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