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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Take steps on SNF and HLW disposal
Matt Bowen
With a new administration and Congress, it is time once again to ponder what will happen—if anything—on U.S. spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste management policy over the next few years. One element of the forthcoming discussion seems clear: The executive and legislative branches are eager to talk about recycling commercial SNF. Whatever the merits of doing so, it does not obviate the need for one or more facilities for disposal of remaining long-lived radionuclides. For that reason, making progress on U.S. disposal capabilities remains urgent, lest the associated radionuclide inventories simply be left for future generations to deal with.
In March, Rick Perry, who was secretary of energy during President Trump’s first administration, observed that during his tenure at the Department of Energy it became clear to him that any plan to move SNF “required some practical consent of the receiving state and local community.”1
Technical Session|Sponsored by Integrated Phenomena in Reactor Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
Bruce A. Pint (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Stuart A. Maloy (PNNL)
Track Organizers:
Andrew Hoffman (n/a)
Adrian Couet (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
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Impact of Proton Irradiation on Corrosion Behavior of Zircaloy-4 and Zr-1Nb Alloys in Hydrogenated Water: A Post-Irradiation Study
10:00–10:20AM CST
Peng Wang (Univ. Michigan), Gary S. Was (Univ. Michigan)
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In-situ Irradiation and Elastic Stress Effects on Molten Fluoride Salt Corrosion of Structural Alloys
10:20–10:40AM CST
C. Evered (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Tonks (Univ. Florida), K. Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), A. Couet (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Molten Chloride Salt Corrosion of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics
10:40–11:00AM CST
Brian Carpman (Univ. Michigan), James Kelly (Univ. Michigan), Stephen S. Raiman (Univ. Michigan)
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Novel Nickel-Base Alloys for Molten Salt Reactor Applications
11:00–11:20AM CST
Ryan Thier (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jaimie Tiley (ORNL), Bruce Pint (ORNL), Ryan Gordon (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Kumar Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Soumya Nag (ORNL), Steven Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Design of Functionally-Graded Cermet Coatings for Molten Salt Reactors by High Throughput Finite Element Modeling
11:20–11:40AM CST
K. Yan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), D. Zhao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), S. Sarkar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), R.Rahul (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), J. Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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