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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.
Meeting Spotlight
2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Technical Session
Monday, July 22, 2024|10:00–11:50AM CDT|Madison Ballroom
Session Chair:
Sunday C. Aduloju
Alternate Chair:
Iole Palermo
Session Organizer:
Paul P. Wilson
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An Open-Source Digital Engineering Pipeline for Enabling In-silico Design and Qualification of Tritium Breeding Devices
10:00–10:25AM CDT
H. Brooks (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), C. Byers (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Davis (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), S. Dixon (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Dubas (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), L. Fletcher (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), L. Humphrey (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), S. Mungale (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), P. Shriwise (ANL)
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FENIX: Toward a Fully Integrated Multiphysics Framework for Plasma Facing Component Modeling
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Pierre-Clement A. Simon (INL), Casey T. Icenhour (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Logan H. Harbour (INL), Derek Gaston (INL), Masashi Shimada (INL), Grayson Gall (NCSU), Amanda M. Lietz (NCSU), Mahmoud Eltawila (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Helen Brooks (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
Scalable Open Source Multiphysics Tools for Induction Heating Simulations of Fusion Components in Electromagnetic Fields
10:50–11:10AM CDT
A. I. Blair (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), H. Bergallo Rocha (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), E. Palmer (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), W. Ellis (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Davis (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
VERTEX-CFD: A Multiphysics Solver for Fusion Applications
11:10–11:30AM CDT
Marco Delchini (ORNL), Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Arpan Sicar (ORNL), Stuart Slattery (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL), Ryan Glasby (ORNL), Franklin Curtis (ORNL)
Multiphysics Modeling of the Electromagnetic Loads on the First Wall During Plasma Disruptions
11:30–11:50AM CDT
Sunday Aduloju (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Paul Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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