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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Sponsored by Integrated Phenomena in Reactor Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|8:00–9:40AM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
Peng Wang (Univ. Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Stuart A. Maloy (PNNL)
Track Organizers:
Andrew Hoffman (n/a)
Adrian Couet (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
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Development of Tapered Specimen Geometries for Accelerated Ion Irradiation Creep Testing of 316 Stainless Steel
8:00–8:20AM CST
M.M. Warwick (Univ. Michigan), W. Peterson (Univ. Michigan), C.A. Hirst (Univ. Michigan), K.G. Field (Univ. Michigan)
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Evaluation of Irradiation Creep Effects in HT9 Cladding for FAST Experiments
8:20–8:40AM CST
A.I. Swearingen (INL), K.M. Paaren (INL), G.I. Beausoleil (INL)
Accelerating Ion Irradiation Sample Throughput via Lateral Gas Implantation Gradients
8:40–9:00AM CST
Charles A. Hirst (Univ. Michigan), Aäron Penders (Univ. Michigan), Alexander Flick (Univ. Michigan), Fabian Naab (Univ. Michigan), Logan N. Clowers (Univ. Michigan), Valentin Pauly (Univ. Michigan), Lauren M. Garrison (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Cody A. Dennett (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Michael P. Short (MIT), Gary S. Was (Univ. Michigan)
Integral Performance of Advanced Metallic Fuel During Severe Transient Overpower
9:00–9:20AM CST
C. Jensen (INL), K. Anderson (INL), B. Armstrong (INL), Austin Fleming (INL), M. Mihelish (INL), R. Fielding (INL), N. Woolstenhulme (INL), J. Schulthess (INL), L. Ocampo Giraldo (INL), P. Medvedev (INL), D. Wachs (INL)
Investigation of Representative LOCA Scenarios on Transient Fission Gas-Induced Fragmentation in Support of Integral LOCA Experiments to be Performed in TREAT
9:20–9:40AM CST
R.J. Armstrong (INL), C.B. Jensen (INL), C.P. Folsom (INL)
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