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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
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
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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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD|Cosponsored by RPD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Fantail
Session Chair:
Mandy Bowles Tomaszewski
Alternate Chair:
Theresa E. Cutler
Session Organizer:
Benjamin Martin
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Why the US Needs an Enduring Plutonium Critical Assembly
3:15–3:35PM EST
J. Hutchinson (LANL), C. Kostelac (LANL), R. Little (LANL), J. Marlow (LANL), J. McKamy (LANL), G. McMath (LANL), K. Stolte (LANL), G. McKenzie (LANL)
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Importance of Higher Fidelity Model Geometries During Optimization of Critical Experiments
3:35–3:55PM EST
Peter Brain (LANL), Kelsey Amundson (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Jesson Hutchinson (LANL), Noah Kleedtke (LANL), Eric Williamson (LANL)
The PARADIGM Project: Case Study in Balancing Experiment Uncertainty with Design Simplicity
3:55–4:15PM EST
T. Cutler (LANL), K. Amundson (LANL), P. Brain (LANL), M. Devlin (LANL), N. Gibson (LANL), J. Hutchinson (LANL), N. Kleedtke (LANL), R. Little (LANL), D. Neudecker (LANL), E. Williamson (LANL)
Neutron Noise Analysis on Simulated Scatter-Based Detector List Mode Data for Subcritical MUSiC Configurations Using MCNP6.3 PTRAC
4:15–4:35PM EST
Luke Oukrop (LANL), Robert Weldon (LANL), Travis Grove (LANL), Jesson Hutchinson (LANL), Rene Sanchez (LANL), Geordie McKenzie (LANL), Alexander McSpaden (LANL)
Preliminary Benchmark Uncertainties for Deimos, a HALEU-Fueled and Graphite-Moderated Advanced Reactor Testbed
4:35–4:55PM EST
Peter Brain (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Kristin Stolte (LANL)
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