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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NEA report calls for more accurate data on SNF heat decay
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has issued a report calling for more-detailed information on tracking the decay heat of spent nuclear fuel from light water reactors. According to the NEA, the report highlights the increasing importance of accurate decay heat estimations due to evolving fuel characteristics, including higher initial fuel enrichment, increased burn-up rates, and extended reactor cycle lengths.
The report, Summary of the NEA Assessment on Spent Nuclear Fuel Decay Heat for Light Water Reactors, summarizes the findings of a subgroup of the NEA’s Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS), which ran from January 2022 to January 2024.
2023 ANS Student Conference Speaker
Katie Mummah (she/her) is PhD student in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a graduate research assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her research expands the capability of nuclear fuel cycle simulators to conduct safeguards analyses, and she is a DOE/NNSA Nuclear Nonproliferation & International Safeguards Graduate Fellow.
Katie has graduate certificates in Science Communication and Energy Analysis & Policy and is known online by her Twitter handle, @nuclearkatie. On Twitter, she shares information about the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear history, and how to integrate the science of science communication into the public dialogue about nuclear energy.
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