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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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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Framatome signs contracts with Sizewell C
French nuclear developer Framatome is slated to deliver key equipment for Sizewell C Ltd.’s two large reactors planned for the United Kingdom’s Suffolk coast.
The agreement, reportedly worth multiple billions of euros, was announced this week and will involve Framatome from the design phase until commissioning. The company also agreed to a long-term fuel supply deal. Framatome is 80.5 percent owned by France’s EDF and 19.5 percent owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Thursday, November 19, 2020|12:15–2:00PM EST
Session Chair:
Oleg Zikanov (Univ Michigan)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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Current results on liquid metal research at the University of Illinois
Charles Kessel, Guizhong Zuo, Davide Curreli, Daniel Edward Andruczyk (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign), David Neil Ruzic, Alfonso de Castro Calles, Matthew Szott, Cody Moynihan, Steven Stemmley, Daniel O'Dea, Andrew Shone, Rabel Rizkallah, Jiansheng Hu, Rajesh Maingi
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Numerical modeling for flowing liquid lithium in 3D printed divertor heat shields
Rajesh Maingi, Andrei Khodak (PPPL)
Measuring the depth of a thin-film liquid metal flow
Peter Ireland, Peter Buxton, Jack Nicholas, Naomi Thoitu Mburu (University of Oxford)
A review of enhanced heat and particle transport in liquid metals by JxB forced convection
Hailin Bi, Yoshi Hirooka (Chubu Daigaku)
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