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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair:
Jack D. Law
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Alternate Chair:
Christina Leggett
Staff Producer:
Mich Leana (American Nuclear Society)
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Characterizing the Properties of Spent Nuclear Fuel
John E. Barlow (The University of Texas at Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (The University of Texas at Austin), Tucker Sawyer (The University of Texas at Austin), Sebastian Vazquez (The University of Texas at Austin), Jason Pauly (The University of Texas at Austin), Kayla Casuga (The University of Texas at Austin)
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TN-32 Model Validation using the HBU Project Spent Fuel Temperature Data
Miles Greiner (University of Nevada, Reno), Mustafa Hadj Nacer (University of Nevada, Reno), Megan Higley (University of Nevada, Reno)
Storage and Transportation Strategy for Fluoride-salt-cooled High-temperature Reactors Spent Fuel
Massimiliano Fratoni (University of California Berkeley), Lorenzo Vergari (University of California Berkeley)
Dynamic Adsorption of Organoiodides using Mordenites
Piyush Sabharwall (Idaho National Laboratory), Krishnan S. Raja (University of Idaho), Chaithanya Balumuru (University of Idaho), John P. Stanford (University of Idaho), Tejaswini Vaidya (University of Idaho), Vivek P. Utgikar (University of Idaho)
Hydrodynamics of Extraction Devices: Residence Time Distribution in Centrifugal Extractors for Organic Phase
Kevin L. Lyon (Idaho National Laboratory), Vivek P. Utgikar (University of Idaho), chaithanya balumuru (University of Idaho)
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