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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 MSTD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
Chaitanya S. Deo
Alternate Chair:
Kallie E. Metzger
Session Organizer:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Staff Producer:
Jessie Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Materials Compatibility with Flowing Molten Lead at 500°C
Osman Anderoglu (University of New Mexico), Khaled Talaat (University of New Mexico), Cemal Cakez (University of New Mexico), Shuprio Ghosh (University of New Mexico), Madhavan Radhakrishnan (University of New Mexico), Keith Woloshun (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Stuart A. Maloy (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Cetin Unal (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Michael R. Ickes (Westinghouse Electric Company), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC)
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BISON Metallic Fuels Benchmark Simulations Based on the X430 Experiment
Ian Greenquist (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jeffrey Powers (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Modeling of Self-Powered Neutron Detectors (SPND) for the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR)
Nathan A. Conner (Idaho State University), George R. Imel (Idaho State University), Jason T. Harris (Purdue University)
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