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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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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Biscayne 2
Session Chair:
Benjamin B. Cipiti
Session Organizers:
Leah Squires (INL)
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Noble Metal Transport Behavior Under Circulating Bubbles Contaminated with Surfactants in MSR
10:00–10:20AM EST
Huihua Yang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Qiyun Cheng (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Wei Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Paper
Application of the Sourdough Fuel Cycle for Rapid Decarbonization of Electric Grids
10:20–10:40AM EST
C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), John P. Carter (INL)
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Fluoride Salt Separation of Uranium from Fission Products
10:40–11:00AM EST
Taryn Gibbs (Oregon State), Alexander Chemey (Oregon State)
Copper and Bismuth-Based Sorbent Characterization in Simulated Iodine Off-Gas Streams
11:00–11:20AM EST
Kathryn M. Peruski (ORNL), Katherine R. Johnson (ORNL), Chase C. Cobble (ORNL), Brian J. Riley (PNNL), Josef Matyas (PNNL), Joanna McFarlane (ORNL)
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