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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.
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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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College students help develop waste-measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
John Stillman (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Cezary Bojanowski (ANL)
Session Organizers:
Erik Wilson (ANL)
Lin-Wen Hu
Track Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Rick Michal (American Nuclear Society)
This session will begin immediately after the conclusion of the session on New and Innovative Developments at the Research Reactors and Nuclear Science Programs. Papers for Progress on High-density LEU Fuel Development and Reactor Conversion-V will begin at approximately 12:10 PM CST.
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Thermal Analysis of Decay Heat Removal from a University of Missouri Research Reactor Discharged Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Element
Dhongik S. Yoon (ANL), John A. Stillman (Argonne National Laboratory), Earl E. Feldman (Argonne National Laboratory), Erik H. Wilson (Argonne National Laboratory), Wilson Cowherd (ANL), Les P. Foyto (University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor), Kiratadas Kutikkad (University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor), Nickie J. Peters (University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor)
Paper
Formulas for Hot Channel Factors for Channels with Forced Flow
Jeremy R. Licht (Argonne National Laboratory), Mohammad Kalimullah (Argonne National Laboratory, Building 208, Room C150, Argonne, IL 60439), E. E. Feldman (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)
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