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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NRC grants Disa license for novel environmental remediation tech
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a license application submitted by Disa Technologies to use high-pressure slurry ablation (HPSA) technology for remediating abandoned uranium mine waste at inactive mining sites.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
Kathryn D. Huff
Alternate Chair:
Jeffrey A. Favorite
Session Organizer:
Brian C. Kiedrowski
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (American Nuclear Society)
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Applying Constrained Bayesian Optimization to the Design of Criticality Experiments
Daniel J. Siefman (LLNL), Catherine M. Percher (LLNL), Jesse Norris (LLNL)
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Deep Surrogate Models for Multi-dimensional Regression of Reactor Power
Akshay Dave (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jarod Wilson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Kaichao Sun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Assembly Combinatorial Optimisation with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Majdi I. Radaideh (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Benoit Forget (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Koroush Shirvan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Analysis of Reactor Simulations with Deep Learning Surrogate Models
Majdi I. Radaideh (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Tomasz Kozlowski (University of Illinois)
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