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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Nuclear Fuels and Materials
Friday, April 5, 2024|3:15–4:35PM EDT|Hammond Room 220
Session Chair:
Caroline E. Ishak
Alternate Chair:
Katheren R. Bosson Nantes (Penn State)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State)
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Enhancing Performance of Corrosion Resistant Alloys in Molten FLiNaK Salts
3:15–3:35PM EDT
Gabriel Lewis (Univ. Idaho)
Paper
X-ray Fluorescent Assessment of Surface Defects on Chromium-Coated Zircaloy-4 Cladding
3:35–3:55PM EDT
James T. Cahill (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carlos Castano (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Reza Mohammadi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Radioisotope Retention in Molten Lead for LFR Source Term
3:55–4:15PM EDT
Michael A. Trombetta (Univ. New Mexico), Shuprio Ghosh (Univ. New Mexico), Malak Bani-Melhem (Univ. New Mexico)
Cladding Sputter Coating Diagnostics
4:15–4:35PM EDT
Krishna Nimmalagadda (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Aryan Panigrahi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Brady T. Moore (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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