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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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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fuels and Actinide Materials
Wednesday, December 13, 2023|8:00–9:40AM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Scarlett Widgeon Paisner (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Track Organizers:
Jian Gan (INL)
Michael Tonks (Univ. Florida)
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Operational Limitations of Uranium Mononitride
8:00–8:20AM CST
Z.A. Miller (LANL), M. Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), V.K. Mehta (LANL)
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Comparing and Contrasting Properties, Defects and Fission Products in UN and PuN
8:20–8:40AM CST
R.W. Grimes (Imperial College London), C.O.T. Galvin (LANL), N. Kuganathan (Imperial College London)
Assessment of Uranium Nitride Fuel Safety Limits Using Existing Experimental Data
8:40–9:00AM CST
A. Levinsky (LANL), Z. Miller (LANL), V.K. Mehta (LANL), M. Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Exploring the Compatibility of UN in Combination with Zr-4 and SiC as Advanced Fuel-Clad Systems
9:00–9:20AM CST
M. Salata-Barnett (Univ. Manchester), J. Buckley (Univ. Manchester), J. Paul (National Nuclear Laboratory), D. Goddard (National Nuclear Laboratory), T. Abram (Univ. Manchester)
Advancements in Uranium Nitride Fuel Performance Modeling in BISON
9:20–9:40AM CST
Christopher Matthews (LANL), Pierre-Clement Simon (INL), Jason Rizk (LANL), Michael W.D. Cooper (LANL), David Andersson (LANL)
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