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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
J. Rory Kennedy
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Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Staff Producer:
Jessie Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Non-destructive Characterization of Nuclear Materials Through X-ray Diffraction - Computed Tomography
Mehmet Topsakal (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Lynne E. Ecker (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Simerjeet K. Gill (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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Atomic Origins of Stored Energy Release in Neutron-Irradiated Silicon Carbide
Yutai Katoh (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Takaaki Koyanagi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), David Sprouster (Stony Brook University), Lance L. Snead (Stony Brook University)
Synchrotron Characterization of Transmutation Products in Neutron Irradiated Tungsten
Xunxiang Hu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Lance L. Snead (Stony Brook University), Yutai Katoh (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Brian D. Wirth (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Chad M. Parish (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Daniel Morrall (Kyoto University), Jason Trelewicz (Stony Brook University), David Sprouster (Stony Brook University)
X-Ray Characterization of Atomistic Defects Causing Irradiation Creep of SiC
Lance L. Snead (Stony Brook University), Yutai Katoh (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), David Sprouster (Stony Brook University), Takaaki Koyanagi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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