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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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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NRC cuts fees by 50 percent for advanced reactor applicants
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it has amended regulations for the licensing, inspection, special projects, and annual fees it will charge applicants and licensees for fiscal year 2025.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Evolution of Material Properties
Tuesday, December 12, 2023|8:00–9:40AM CST|Galerie 1
Session Chair:
Brian Wirth (University of Tennessee)
Alternate Chair:
Thak Sang Byun (ORNL)
Track Organizers:
Dong Liu (University of Bristol)
Gary Was (Univ. Michigan)
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An Integrated Statistical-Thermodynamic Model for Fission Gas Swelling and Release in Nuclear Fuels
8:00–8:20AM CST
C.K.C. Lieou (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), N.A. Capps (ORNL), M.W.D. Cooper (LANL), P.-C.A. Simon (INL), B.D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Development of Instrumented Advanced Test Reactor Irradiation Capsule Experiment for In-situ Thermal Conductivity Measurements of High-Density Fuels
8:20–8:40AM CST
C. Downey (INL), K. Jewell (INL), M. Turkmen (INL), D. Chapman (INL), R. Sandbek (INL), J. Watkins (INL), L. Sudderth (INL)
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Fractography of High Burnup Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods from Cyclic Bending Fatigue Failure
8:40–9:00AM CST
Yadukrishnan Sasikumar (ORNL), Paul Cantonwine (ORNL), Rose Montgomery (ORNL)
Atomistic-Scale Simulations of Creep in Uranium Oxide Nuclear Fuel
9:00–9:20AM CST
Conor Galvin (LANL), David Andersson (LANL), Ryan T. Sweet (INL), Laurent Capolungo (LANL), Michael W. Cooper (LANL)
Irradiation Enhanced Creep in UO2 from Cluster Dynamics Simulation of Grain Boundaries
9:20–9:40AM CST
W.D. Neilson (LANL), C.O.T. Galvin (LANL), M.W.D. Cooper (LANL), D.A. Andersson (LANL)
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