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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Integrating Waste Management for Advanced Reactors: The Universal Canister System and Project UPWARDS
When the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy launched the Optimizing Nuclear Waste and Advanced Reactor Disposal Systems (ONWARDS) program in 2022, it posed a challenge that the nuclear industry had never seriously confronted before: how to design waste management solutions that anticipate the coming shift to advanced reactors and not merely retrofit existing systems built for an older generation of technology. The program’s objectives were ambitious—reduce disposal footprint, enable scalable pathways for unfamiliar waste streams, and build the technical foundations for future disposal—yet also tightly grounded in the realities of emerging nuclear fuel cycles. For the nuclear community, this was a timely call. Advanced reactors were accelerating toward deployment, but the waste management systems needed to support them had not kept pace.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Technical Session
Monday, November 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Longboat 2
Session Chairs:
Jason D. Haverkamp (NNL)
Ahmad Ibrahim
Session Organizer:
Mathieu Dupont
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Rapid Dose Rate Assessment of UK Radioactive Waste Transports to a Geological Disposal Facility Using a Hybrid Radiation Transport Code and Python Scripting Method
1:00–1:20PM EST
Matthew Thomson (Nuclear Transport Solutions), Jack Warrington (Nuclear Transport Solutions)
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Analysis of Second Target Station Target Removal Dose Rates
1:20–1:40PM EST
Tucker C. McClanahan (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL)
Surface Monitor Placement Analysis for STS Accelerator Personnel Protection System
1:40–2:00PM EST
Wouter C. de Wet (ORNL)
COG 11.3 Validation for Shielding Applications
2:00–2:20PM EST
David P. Heinrichs (LLNL), Edward M. Lent (LLNL), Chuck K. Lee (LLNL), Soon S. Kim (LLNL), Jacob D. Glesmann (LLNL)
Radiation Dose Assessment in Retrospective Dosimetry Using TRIPOLI-4® and Computational Phantoms
2:20–2:40PM EST
Yi-Kang Lee (CEA), Francois-Xavier Hugot (CEA)
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