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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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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC 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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Drones fly in to inspect waste tanks at Savannah River Site
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management will soon, for the first time, begin using drones to internally inspect radioactive liquid waste tanks at the department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Inspections were previously done using magnetic wall-crawling robots.
Technical Session|Methods
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan C
Session Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. of Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Carlo Fiorina (Texas A&M Uni.)
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Comparison of Various DNN Modelling Strategies for Assembly Node Averaged Multigroup Cross Section Representation for Nodal Codes
1:30–1:50PM PDT
Yi Meng Chan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Jan Dufek (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Paper
An Alternative Approach for Group Constants Regression Based on Supervised Learning Techniques
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Lorenzo Loi (Politecnico di Milano), Stefano Riva (Politecnico di Milano), Carolina Introini (Politecnico di Milano), Enrico Padovani (Politecnico di Milano), Francesca Giacobbo (Politecnico di Milano), Antonio Cammi (Politecnico di Milano)
Predicting PWR Fuel Assembly CIPS Susceptibility with Convolutional Neural Networks: Performance and Uncertainty Quantification
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Aidan Furlong (NCSU), Farah Alsafadi (NCSU), Scott Palmtag (NCSU), Andrew Godfrey (Veracity Nuclear), Stanley Hayes (Duke Power), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Monte Carlo with Single-Cycle Latency: Optimization of a Continuous Energy Cross Section Lookup Kernel for AI Accelerator Hardware
2:30–2:50PM PDT
John Tramm (ANL), Bryce Allen (ANL), Kazutomo Yoshii (ANL), Andrew Siegel (ANL)
Advancements in the Genetic-Driven Optimisation of the Few-Group Structures for Lead Fast Reactors Analysis
2:50–3:10PM PDT
A. Aimetta (Politecnico di Torino), N. Abrate (Politecnico di Torino), M. Massone (ENEA), S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino)
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