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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.
Meeting Spotlight
International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver 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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Sam Altman steps down as Oklo board chair
Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
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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