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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.
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 17, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Haselton
Session Chair:
Giuseppe Palmiotti
Session Organizers:
Piero Ravetto (Politecnico di Torino)
Alternate Chair:
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The Fast Neutron Source at UTK: A Project with Massimo Salvatores
V. Sobes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), J. Pevey (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), A. Depillis (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), O. Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), S. Bogetic (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), W. Hines (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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A Revisitation of the ENEA TAPIRO Fast Source Reactor Neutronic Capabilities.
S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino), M. Carta (ENEA), N. Burgio (ENEA), V. Fabrizio (ENEA), L. Falconi (ENEA), V. Peluso (ENEA), A. Santagata (ENEA)
A Refined Assessment of Nuclear Data Target Accuracy Requirements for ALFRED
Donato Maurizio Castelluccio (ENEA), Giacomo Grasso (ENEA), Francesco Lodi (ENEA), Vincenzo Peluso (ENEA)
Status of the WPEC Subgroup 46 Efficient and Effective Use of Integral Experiments for Nuclear Data Validation
M. Hursin (Paul Scherrer Institute), O. Cabellos (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), G. Palmiotti (INL)
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