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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
International High Level Radioactive Waste Management (IHLRWM 2025)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 11, 2025|3:15–5:00PM EST|Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Erika Holt
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Emily R. Stein
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Transatlantic Cooperation of the European Partnership on Radioactive Waste Management with the USA
3:15–3:35PM EST
Louise Theodon (French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (ANDRA)), Erika Holt (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Marcus Altmaier (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Nadia Mokni (ASNR), Sergey Churakov (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)), Stéphane Brassinnes (Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials (ONDRAF/NIRAS))
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Transatlantic Cooperation Post-Presentation Discussion Period
3:35–3:55PM EST
Integrated Methodology for Swiss HLW Repository Optimization
3:55–4:15PM EST
Efstathios Vlassopoulos (Nagra), Irina Gaus (Nagra), Andreas Poller (CSD Engineers AG)
Deliberation as Technocratic Framing?: The Case of France's CNDP and HLW Governance
4:15–4:35PM EST
Yunhee Choi (Tampere University)
Managing Nuclear Waste in the Era of Advanced Reactor Technologies
4:35–4:55PM EST
Rebecca TADESSE (OECD Nuclear Energy Agency), Una Baker (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Tatiana Ivanova, Gabriele Grassi (AREVA NP, Inc.), Oliver Buss (OECD Nuclear Energy Agency), Ville A. Tulkki, Charles Bory (OECD Nuclear Energy Agency)
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