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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump issues executive orders to overhaul nuclear industry
The Trump administration issued four executive orders today aimed at boosting domestic nuclear deployment ahead of significant growth in projected energy demand in the coming decades.
During a live signing in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump called nuclear “a hot industry,” adding, “It’s a brilliant industry. [But] you’ve got to do it right. It’s become very safe and environmental.”
Technical Session
Wednesday, May 10, 2023|10:30AM–12:10PM MDT|Idaho Falls Room
Session Chair:
David I. Poston
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Alternate Chair:
Michael G. Houts
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Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Joyner
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Shi
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Herner
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Digital Transient Modeling of NTP Prototype with Upset and Control System Analysis
10:30–10:50AM MDT
C. Russell Joyner II (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Tyler Jennings (Aerojet Rocketdyne), James Larkin (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Daniel J.H. Levack (Aerojet Rocketdyne)
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Coupled Modeling and Prediction of Cryogenic Propellant Thermo-Fluid Dynamics
10:50–11:10AM MDT
Eymon Lan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Shanbin Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Dose Impacts from Fission Products and Flux Fields for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Ground Testing
11:10–11:30AM MDT
Reed Herner (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Alexander Foutch (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Kelsa Palomares (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Adam Boylston (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Lindsey Holmes (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.)
Thermal Analysis of the Small Nuclear Rocket Engine Benchmark Case Using the MOOSE Framework
11:30–11:50AM MDT
Jacob Stonehill (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Corey D. Smith (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Kelsa B. Palomares (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.)
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