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Division Spotlight
Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
Meeting Spotlight
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|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 1
Session Chair:
Tomoaki Watanabe (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Alternate Chair:
Anselmo T. Cisneros (TerraPower)
Session Organizer:
Go Chiba (Hokkaido University)
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Validation of ENDF/B-VIII.0 Cross-Section Library for METAL-FAST Graphite Systems
10:15–10:35AM PDT
Paul Vollrath (Georgia Tech), Farzad Rahnema (Georgia Tech), Alex Shaw (ORNL)
Paper
Investigation of the Impact of TSL Data Libraries and Geometry Variations on the MSRE Benchmark
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Aidana Bauyrzhan (NCSU), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU)
Assessing Criticality Implications of Small Angle Neutron Scattering and Porosity Misrepresentation in ENDF/B-VIII.1 TSLs for Nuclear Graphite
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Kemal Ramic (ORNL), Iyad Al-Qasir (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Anne Campbell (ORNL), Kyle Grammer (ORNL), Zain Karriem (ORNL), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian (European Spallation Source), Mark Baird (ORNL), Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL), Luke Daemen (ORNL), Eric Novak (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Goran Arbanas (ORNL), Luiz Leal (ORNL), Germina Ilas (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Comparison of Coarse Energy Group Structures for Graphite Moderated Molten Salt Reactors and Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Modeling
11:15–11:35AM PDT
J. Faulkner (Georgia Tech), B. Petrovic (Georgia Tech)
Reactivity Impact of Updated 35Cl Nuclear Data on the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment
11:35–11:55AM PDT
T. Cisneros (TerraPower), M. Wargon (TerraPower), K. Hanselman (LANL), T. Kawano (LANL), S.A. Kuvin (LANL), H.Y. Lee (LANL)
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