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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Monday, November 16, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Angela Chambers
Alternate Chair:
Marsha Henley (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Douglas G. Bowen
Staff Producer:
Mich Leana (American Nuclear Society)
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Data Testing of Polyethylene Thermal Scattering Law with New Thermal Epithermal eXperiments (TEX) Plutonium Baseline Benchmark, PU-MET-MIXED-002
Catherine M. Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), David P. Heinrichs (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Soon S. Kim (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Jesse D. Norris (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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Bayesian Monte Carlo Evaluation Framework for Cross Sections Nuclear Data and Integral Benchmark Experiments
Dorothea Wiarda (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Andrew M. Holcomb (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jesse Brown (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Goran Arbanas (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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S/U Comparison Study with a Focus on USLs
Justin B. Clarity (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kristina Y. Spencer (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Ellen M. Saylor (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Michael E. Rising (Los Alamos National Laboratory), William J. Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Robert C. Little (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Luiz C. Leal (Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (IRSN)), Frederic Fernex (Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (IRSN)), Isabelle Duhamel (Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (IRSN)), Forrest B. Brown (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jennifer L. Alwin (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Experiments at Sandia to Measure the Effect of Temperature on Critical Systems
David E. Ames (Sandia National Laboratories), Gary A. Harms (Sandia National Laboratories)
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