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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
Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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NextGen MURR Working Group established in Missouri
The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has created the NextGen MURR Working Group to serve as a strategic advisory body for the development of the NextGen MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor).
Senior Advisory Board Members
Tunc Aldemir
The Ohio State University
USA
Carol S. Smidts
Paul Amico
Jensen Hughes
Steven Arndt
ORNL
Bob Budnitz
LBNL (Retired)
Fernando Ferrante
EPRI
Katrina Groth
University of Maryland at College Park
Zahra Mohagheh
University of Illinois
Curtis Smith
INL
Mehdi Reisi-Fard
NRC
Huyn Gook Kang
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Matt Denman
Kairos Power
Dave Grabaskas
ANL
Kevin O’Kula
Nuclear Safety Consultant
Enrique Droguett
University of Chile
Chile
Marina Röwekamp
GRS GmbH
Germany
Man Cheol Kim
KAERI
Korea
Name
Organization
Country
Enrico Zio
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
JinKyun Park
Luca Podofillini
Paul Scherrer Institute
Switzerland
Matthew Degonish
Callaway
Richard Denning
Retired
Samantha Sabatino
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andrea Maioli
Westinghouse Electric Company
Andrew Whittaker
University at Buffalo
Ben Chen
Argonne National Laboratory
Bob Youngblood
Idaho National Laboratory
Carol Smidts
Claudia Picoco
EDF
Cory Ball
Curtis L. Smith
David S. Grabaskas
Dong-San Kim
Enrique Meléndez-Asensio
Consejo de Seguridad de Nuclear (CSN)
SPAIN
Eric A. Thornsbury
Fan Zhang
Georgia Institute of Technology
Gabriel Georgescu
IRSN
France
Hyun Gook Kang
Devi Kompella
India
Joomyung V Lee
North Carolina State University
Ken Kiper
Kevin Coyne
Chung-Ang University
Manuel Pellissetti
Framatome
Marko Cepin
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia
Michelle Bensi
University of Maryland
Mohamed Hibti
Muhammed Modarres
Nathan Siu
NRC_Retired
Ronald L. Boring
Sai Zhang
Seung Jun Lee
Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology
Stephen Hess
Steven Prescott
Svetlana Lawrence
Todd V Paulos
NASA
Vaibhav Yadav
Valentin Rychkov
Vincent Paglioni
Colorado State University
Xiaoyu Zheng
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Japan
Xingang Zhao
Yunfei Zhao
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