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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.
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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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Technical Session
Friday, April 9, 2021|2:30–4:30PM EDT
Session Chair:
Amanda Bachmann (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NCSU)
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Lakshitha Kaleyanda (NCSU)
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EPR Dosimetry of Tooth Enamel for Low Dose Epidemiological Studies
Fatma Abdelrahman (North Carolina State University), Robert B. Hayes (North Carolina State University)
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Low Dose Assessment Uncertainty Analysis for Landaurer® nanoDotTM OSLDs
Robert B. Hayes (North Carolina State University), Egemen M. Aras (North Carolina State University)
Design of U-235 and Np-237 Scattering Phantoms for Active Neutron Multiplicity Counting
Michael Y. Hua (University of Michigan), Philip D. Bauwens (University of Michigan), Tessa E. Maurer (University of Michigan), Caiser A. Bravo (University of Michigan)
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Preliminary Design for the Adaptation of a High Density, Low-Enriched Fuel in Naval Pressurized Water Reactors Minimally Enriched Fuel Replacement for Modernizing Aircraft Carriers In Deployment (M.E.R.M.A.I.D.)
Jacob Davis (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Brenden Kelly (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Mike Jennings (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Jacob Hahn (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Andrew Glass (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Karl Fahrenholtz (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Brandon Bloss (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Ryan A. Siggins (Missouri S&T)
Optimizing High-Altitude-Burst EMP Effects
Nathan J. Schubring (United States Military Academy (West Point)), Jeffrey S. Price (United States Military Academy (West Point)), Nathaniel E. Peek (United States Military Academy (West Point)), Julien L. Levesque (United States Military Academy (West Point))
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