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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session
Friday, April 9, 2021|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT
Session Chair:
Cao Da (NC State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NC State Univ.)
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Session Producer:
Roberto Fairhurst-Agosta (Univ. of Ill., Urbana-Champaign)
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Designing a Load Following High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor System
Kaitlyn E. Barr (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Joshua Cooper (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Lincoln Johnston (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Volkan Seker (University of Michigan), Thomas J. Downar (University of Michigan)
Paper
Design and Safety Considerations for the Purification and Testing of Uranium-Bearing Molten Salts
Kristen Geddes (University of Idaho), Robin V. Roper (University of Idaho)
A Web Application to Visualize Advanced Fuel Cycle Waste Characteristics
Robert Stallman (Santa Clara University), Milos I. Atz (Argonne National Laboratory)
High Temperature Lead Cooled Fast Reactor for Advanced Drilling
Cole M. Kostelac (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Ashley R. Raster (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Matthew Resz (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Taylor D. Loftus (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
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