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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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NRC updating GEIS rule for new nuclear technology
The Nuclear Regulatory Agency is issuing a proposed generic environmental impact statement (GEIS) for use in reviewing applications for new nuclear reactors.
In an April 17 memo, NRC secretary Carrie Safford wrote that the commission approved NRC staff’s recommendation to publish in the Federal Register a proposed rule amending 10 CFR Part 51, “Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory Functions.”
Panel and Technical Session|Criticality Safety
Saturday, April 15, 2023|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Student Union 362C
Session Chair:
Katy Worrell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Matthew McMillan (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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Design of a Subcritical Test Assembly at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1:35–1:55PM EDT
Edward G. Fejedelem (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Carson Sain (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Chilson Whittum (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Katy Worrell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Alexander Lang (ORNL), Mathieu Dupont (ORNL), Douglas G. Bowen (ORNL)
Paper
Consistency-Based Benchmark Rejection Used for Nuclear Criticality Safety Analysis Applications
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Jeongwon Seo (Purdue), Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue)
Heavy Water Experiment with Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly (ISSA)
2:15–2:35PM EDT
Alessandra H. Totaro Villar (Univ. California, Berkeley), Speero M. Tannous (Univ. California, Berkeley), Émile Gateau (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Burnable Poison Loading Optimization
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Vitaliy Mykhnyak (Penn State), Devin J. Ortiz (Penn State), Andrew Broesder (Penn State)
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