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Division Spotlight
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
2022 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo
November 13–17, 2022
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort
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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The DRUM program: Cataloging America’s abandoned uranium mines
Based on a review of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) records and available data from numerous agencies, there are an estimated 4,225 mines across the country that provided uranium ore to the U.S. government for defense-related purposes between 1947 and 1970. To aid in the cleanup of these legacy uranium mines and establish a record of their locations and current conditions, the Defense-Related Uranium Mines (DRUM) program was established within the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management (LM).
Technical Session|Sponsored by Reactor Physics
Friday, April 15, 2022|3:00–4:30PM CDT|Excellence Room
Sponsored by ANS Reactor Physics Division
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Modeling the Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) Delayed Tail with Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) Version 6.2
Eli Boland (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Summary
Solving the MOX-3600 Benchmark with LUPINE
Anna Isom (NCSU), William C. Dawn (NC State University), Scott Palmtag (NC State University)
Graphite Moderated Sub-Critical Assembly AY22.
Michael Kaffka (United States Military Academy West Point), Garrett Mathews (United States Military Academy West Point), Brant Raleigh (United States Military Academy West Point)
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