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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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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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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Taking shape: Fusion energy ecosystems built with public-private partnerships
It’s possible to describe fusion in simple terms: heat and squeeze small atoms to get abundant clean energy. But there’s nothing simple about getting fusion ready for the grid.
Private developers, national lab and university researchers, suppliers, and end users working toward that goal are developing a range of complex technologies to reach fusion temperatures and pressures, confounded by science and technology gaps linked to plasma behavior; materials, diagnostics, and electronics for extreme environments; fuel cycle sustainability; and economics.
Workshop
Thursday, April 8, 2021|11:45AM–1:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Benjamin W. Beeler
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NC State Univ.)
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Session Producers:
Bryant Kanies (NCSU)
Nuclear materials research encompasses fuel, cladding, gap bond, coolant, reactor pressure vessels, divertor, blankets and all other material systems of interest in fission and fusion reactor systems. A number of primary technological challenges facing the nuclear industry are all materials-based, such as extending to longer lifetimes, qualifying new fuel types for advanced reactors, and developing next generation reactor designs. This workshop will introduce participants to the field of computational nuclear materials science, with an overview of atomistic, mesoscale and fuel performance simulation methodologies. Participants will get hands-on training in molecular dynamics simulations on sodium cooled fast reactor metallic nuclear fuel systems utilizing the LAMMPS software package. LAMMPS is a state-of-the-art open source massively parallel molecular dynamics simulation code, that can be executed on a laptop. No prior computational experience is required, only an interest in nuclear materials research and a laptop is needed. Prior to participating in this workshop, please download the files named "InputFiles.zip" here. The extracted files will be used during the workshop in the interactive portion of the session. View the presentation here.
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