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Division Spotlight
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.
Meeting Spotlight
2023 ANS Annual Meeting
June 11–14, 2023
Indianapolis, IN|Marriott Indianapolis 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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Route readiness elements in a large-scale spent nuclear fuel transportation system
The scale and duration of a national campaign to transport spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from commercial nuclear power plants around the United States would be unprecedented. A meticulous level of planning that considers many elements is needed to inspire public confidence and support.
Technical Session
Wednesday, May 18, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Ellwood
Session Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Vefa N. Kucukboyaci
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Using Griffin's Transmutation Solver to Calculate Radiation Damage
Micah Gale (INL), Olin Calvin (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL)
Summary
Monte Carlo Variance Reduction in MOOSE Stochastic Tools Module: Accelerating the Failure Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Technologies
Somayajulu L.N. Dhulipala (INL), Zachary M. Prince (INL), Andrew E. Slaughter (INL), Lynn B. Munday (INL), Wen Jiang (INL), Benjamin W. Spencer (INL), Jason D. Hales (INL)
Towards Multiphysics Simulations of Fusion Breeder Blankets
Helen Brooks (UKAEA), Stephen Dixon (UKAEA), Andrew Davis (UKAEA)
Spectrally-Resolved Electron Transport for Thermal Property Prediction
Jackson R. Harter (INL), Shuxiang Zhou (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Andrea Jokisaari (INL), P. Alex Greaney (Univ. California, Riverside)
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