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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.
Meeting Spotlight
Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2023)
February 6–9, 2023
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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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Cs-137 sealed source found in Western Australia
A rendering of the sealed source capsule’s appearance. (Image: DFES)
Australian emergency services has located the lost sealed source, the BBC reported early February 1.
The caesium-137 capsule, part of a density gauge used at Rio Tinto’s Gudai-Darri mine in Western Australia, was found after a survey vehicle travelling at 70 km/h (43 mph) detected radiation, according to the report. According to Australia’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services, the capsule was located on the roadside of the Great Northern Highway, south of Newman. A serial number verified it was the lost source.
Last week, as reported yesterday by Nuclear Newswire, Australian authorities began searching 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) of Australia’s Great Northern Highway, between Perth and the remote town of Newman, for a lost sealed-source capsule containing cesium-137. The source was part of a density gauge used by mining company Rio Tinto at its mining operations in Western Australia.
Technical Session
Thursday, May 19, 2022|3:30–5:15PM EDT|Fountainview
Session Chair:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Nathan H. Manwaring (INL)
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Planning for Nuclear Testing After Core Internals Changeout #6 in the Advanced Test Reactor
Nathan Manwaring (INL), Daren Norman (INL)
Summary
Investigation of Approximations in Modeling BWR Void Distributions
Chase Lawing (NCSU), Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Uncertainty Calculations with OpenMOC for Lattice Reactor Physics
Mohammad Hashemi (Technical Univ. Munich), R. Reifarth (Goethe Univ. Frankfurt), R. Macian-Juan (Technical Univ. of Munich), A. Hernandez-Solis (SCK CEN)
Presented by Pablo Romojaro (SCK CEN)
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