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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Waste Management 2024: The symposia at 50
This year marked the 50th anniversary of Waste Management Symposia’s Waste Management Conference, held March 10–14 in Phoenix, Ariz. The event has grown significantly since the first Waste Management Conference in 1974, which attracted about 200 attendees. This year’s conference saw a record attendance of around 3,300 people from more than 20 different countries and boasted 235 technical sessions and 89 exhibitors.
Technical Session|Severe Accidents
Monday, August 21, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Fulvio Mascari
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Nikoleta Morelova (IAEA)
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Development and Modification of Pool Scrubbing Decontamination Factor Evaluation in Severe Accident Code
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Weiyi Yao (Univ. Tokyo), Marco Pellegrini (Univ. Tokyo), Koji Okamoto (Univ. Tokyo)
Paper
Investigation of Starting Time Characteristics of Source Term Release for Dissimilar Nuclear Accident Consequence
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Wasin Vechgama (KAERI), Jaehyun Cho (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Methyl Iodide Retention in Ag-Zeolite Material Under Filtered Containment Venting System Condition
2:10–2:30PM EDT
F. Espegren (Paul Scherrer Institute), D. Suckow (Paul Scherrer Institute), T. Lind (Paul Scherrer Institute), J. Mantzaras (Paul Scherrer Institute), J. Theile (Paul Scherrer Institute)
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