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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
February 22–26, 2015
Racing to Improved Cost-Effective Plant Operation
Charlotte, NC|The Westin Charlotte
The Westin Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, is the location for the 9th International Conference on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies, where all meeting activities and technical sessions will be held. With the positive response we have received for this meeting the Westin Charlotte is quickly selling out of our block. Because the Westin no longer has rooms to sell on Thursday, February 27, we have secured the Hyatt Place Hotel for those needing to stay over through Friday. Shuttle transportation will be provided from the Hyatt Place to the Westin Charlotte Sunday-Thursday. To make your room reservations February 22 to February 26, contact the Westin Charlotte Hotel for the special conference rate of $179 by booking online at Westin Charlotte. To make reservations by phone, call 1-866-837-4148. In order to receive the special group-discounted rate, please mention the NPICHMIT 2015 Conference. To make your room reservations February 22 to February 27, contact the Hyatt Place Charlotte/Airport for the special conference rate of $169 by booking online at Hyatt Place Charlotte . To make reservations by phone, call 1-888-492-8847. In order to receive the special group-discounted rate, please mention the NPICHMIT 2015 Conference. Reservations must be made by Friday, January 30, 2015 or before the group rooms are sold out, so do not delay. Prevailing rates may apply after this date or when the group rooms are sold out, whichever occurs first. Rooms are subject to availability.
General Chair:
H.M. Hashemian (President, AMS Corporation)
Program Chair:
Sacit M. Cetiner (R & D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
