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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.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM EST|Longboat 1
Session Chairs:
Cihangir Celik
Christophe Destouches (CEA)
Session Organizer:
Michael Reichenberger
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Effects of Heteroskedastic Uncertainty on Optimal Dose Distributions for Additive Dose Methods in EPR Dosimetry
8:00–8:20AM EST
Melody G. Polk (NCSU), Robert B. Hayes (NCSU)
Paper
Towards an Energy Deposition Tally in SCALE/MAVRIC
8:20–8:40AM EST
Cihangir Celik (ORNL), Andrew M. Holcomb (OECD NEA), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Qualifying the Instrument Thimble 11 Position in the Advanced Test Reactor Critical
8:40–9:00AM EST
Dani G. Ottaway (INL), Kelly M. McCary (INL), Daren R. Norman (INL), Michael A. Reichenberger (INL)
The MADERE Platform: Update of the γ and X-Ray Activity Measurements Techniques
9:00–9:20AM EST
Nicolas Thiollay (CEA), Christophe Destouches (CEA), Christophe Domergue (CEA), David Tisseur (CEA)
Update on the CEA Reactor Dosimetry Methodology Developed for Activity Analysis
9:20–9:40AM EST
Christophe Destouches (CEA), Nicolas Thiollay (CEA), Clément Fausser (CEA), Gilles Grégoire (CEA), David Tisseur (CEA)
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