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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC discontinues spent fuel pool rulemaking
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is discontinuing its rulemaking activity, “Long-Term and Unattended Water Makeup of Spent Fuel Pools,” and denying a petition for rulemaking. The new rule, as requested by the petitioner, would have required nuclear power plant licensees to ensure that their spent nuclear fuel pools are capable of cooling and maintaining water levels during extended power outages.
Panel and Technical Session|Criticality Safety
Saturday, April 15, 2023|10:15–11:35AM EDT|Student Union 362C
Session Chair:
Katy Worrell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Brad Moore (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Nuclear Criticality Safety Division.
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Verifying MCNP Models of the TEX High 240 Plutonium Benchmark
10:15–10:35AM EDT
Daniel Hunter (LANL), Rene G. Sanchez (LANL), Joetta M. Goda (LANL)
Paper
Nuclear Criticality Safety Review of HEU Dissolution
10:35–10:55AM EDT
Anthony F. Tom (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Michael Cartwright (Y-12 National Security Complex)
Building an ICSBEP Benchmark : A Student's Perspective
10:55–11:15AM EDT
Rowdy Davis (University of New Mexico), Christopher M. Perfetti (The University of New Mexico)
Subcritical Experiments with Uranium-233 and Composite Shielding
11:15–11:35AM EDT
Alicia Pang (Univ. California, Berkeley), Isabel Hernandez (Univ. California, Berkeley), Chia Y. Fang (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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