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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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OPG gets final permission to construct first North American SMR
Ontario Power Generation GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy announced May 8 that Ontario authorities have approved construction plans for the first of four BWRX-300 small modular reactors at the Darlington New Nuclear Project site on Lake Ontario, less than 50 miles east of Toronto, Canada. The first new nuclear construction project in Ontario in more than three decades is also the first SMR construction project in North America.
Technical Session|Water-Cooled Reactor Operations and Accident Analysis
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Columbia 3/4
Session Chair:
Ki-Yong Choi (KAERI)
Alternate Chair:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse)
Session Organizer:
Chul-Hwa Song
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Prioritization of Regulatory Review Focuses on the Safety Analysis of Passive Safety System by REPAS Method
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Ju Yeop Park (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Seong-Su Jeon (FNC Technology Co.), Yougjae Park (FNC Technology Co.), Jehee Lee (FNC Technology Co.)
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