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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
Standards Program
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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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods (Advanced Methods and Tools)|Cosponsored by NPIC&HMIT
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|300C
Session Chair:
Sai Zhang
Alternate Chair:
Xingang Zhao (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Natural Language Processing-Enhanced Nuclear Industry Operating Experience Data Analysis: Aggregation and Interpretation of Multi-Report Analysis Results
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Sai Zhang (INL), Fei Xu (INL), Zhegang Ma (INL), Min Xian (Univ. Idaho)
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The Development of an Outlier Detection Algorithm for Multi-Dimensional Measurement of Nuclear Power Plant Cables
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Gabriel Lentchner (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), John Leland (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Elijah Connatser (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Casey Sexton (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Brent Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Vladimir Sobes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Verification and Validation Approach for Use of Data Analytics in Nuclear Power Plants
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Ethan Wise (Jensen Hughes), Stephen Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jonathan Hodges (Jensen Hughes), Andrew Miller (Jensen Hughes)
Creating Annotated Corpus and Named Entity Recognition Model for Nuclear Power Industry
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Hideki Sekiguchi (NCSU), Joomyung Lee (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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