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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Glass strategy: Hanford’s enhanced waste glass program
The mission of the Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection (ORP) is to complete the safe cleanup of waste resulting from decades of nuclear weapons development. One of the most technologically challenging responsibilities is the safe disposition of approximately 56 million gallons of radioactive waste historically stored in 177 tanks at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
ORP has a clear incentive to reduce the overall mission duration and cost. One pathway is to develop and deploy innovative technical solutions that can advance baseline flow sheets toward higher efficiency operations while reducing identified risks without compromising safety. Vitrification is the baseline process that will convert both high-level and low-level radioactive waste at Hanford into a stable glass waste form for long-term storage and disposal.
Although vitrification is a mature technology, there are key areas where technology can further reduce operational risks, advance baseline processes to maximize waste throughput, and provide the underpinning to enhance operational flexibility; all steps in reducing mission duration and cost.
Panel and Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Friday, April 14, 2023|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Student Union 362A
Session Chair:
Noah Walton (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Katy Worrell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Mathematics & Computation Division.
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pyMAISE: A Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking Software for Nuclear Reactor Applications
1:35–1:55PM EDT
Patrick A. Myers (Univ. Michigan), Connor C. Craig (Univ. Michigan), Veda G. Joynt (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
Paper
A Comparison of Numerical Methods on the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Galen A. Selligman (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
X-ray Fluorescence Modeling Using Monte Carlo Methods
2:15–2:35PM EDT
James T. Cahill (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Caleb T. King (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Tristan O. Norrgard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carlos E. Castano (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Reza Mohammadi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Improvements to the TACOCAT Single Channel Analysis Solver: Integrated Testing and Modular Flux Profiles and Geometries
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Trevor Franklin (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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