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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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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.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Advanced Modeling Applications
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Cenk Guler (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
Brenden Mervin (EPRI)
Track Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Joseph Coale (NC State Univ.)
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Applications of VERA for Improvement in NRC Methods
Matthew A. Jessee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Andrew M. Ward (University of Michigan), Andrew Godfrey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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The Future of VERA at EPRI and Potential Impacts on the Commercial Fleet
Brenden T. Mervin (Electric Power Research Institute), Erik V. Mader (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)), Robert S. Daum (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
VERA Applications and Commercial Deployment at Westinghouse
Vefa N. Kucukboyaci (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC), Zach McDaniel (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC), Zeses E. Karoutas (Westinghouse Electric Company), Yixing Sung (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC), Robert Brewster (Self)
Use of VERA to Improve Baffle/Reflector Data Generation for the Westinghouse Core Design Code System
Baocheng Zhang (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC), Aaron M. Graham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Mangiarotti), Andrew Godfrey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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