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Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
Technical Session
Friday, April 9, 2021|2:30–4:30PM EDT
Session Chair:
Khadija Mahbuba (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NCSU)
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Session Producers:
Quentin Faure (NCSU)
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A Review of Risk Assessment of a Dry Cask Storage System
Havva Tayfur (NC State Univ.), Alp Tezbasaran (North Carolina State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
Paper
Fast Neutron Interrogation for Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Cask Monitoring
Zhihua Liu (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS), Ming Fang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Angela D. Fulvio (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
An Elastic Waveform Tomography of Spent Nuclear Fuel Casks
Othman Oudghiri-Idrissi (University of Minnesota), Bojan B. Guzina (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
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