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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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GAO: Grouting Hanford tank waste could cost more than $1.1B
Workers move a container of treated tank waste as part of Hanford’s Test Bed Initiative to grout around 2,000 gallons of LAW for off-site disposal. (Photo: DOE)
Grouting Hanford’s low-level radioactive liquid tank waste could cost between $480 million and $1.1 billion, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office, which has repeatedly found that grouting (immobilizing waste in a concrete-like mixture) can accelerate cleanup at the Hanford Site and save billions of dollars when compared to mixing the waste with molten glass through the vitrification process.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NNPD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|4:20–5:45PM EST |Columbia 9
Session Chair:
Stefani Buster
Alternate Chair:
Miltiadis Alamaniotis
Session Organizer:
Student Assistant:
Amanda Bachmann
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Impact of Potential Source Term Updates in DTRA's HPAC
4:25–4:45PM EST
Joshua Molgaard (Defense Threat Reduction Agency), Tyler Dant (Applied Research Assoc.)
Paper
Geometry Effects in the Transport Calculations of the Multiplicity Moments
4:45–5:05PM EST
Victor Dykin (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), Imre Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
A Novel Nuclear Material Control Technique for Pebble Fueled Reactors
5:05–5:25PM EST
Sunil S. Chirayath (Texas A&M Univ.), Claudio A. Gariazzo (ANL), Raffaella Righetti (Texas A&M Univ.), Mohammad Naraghi (Texas A&M Univ.)
An Explainable Artificial Intelligence Approach using a Hopfield Network in Nuclear Security Applications
5:25–5:45PM EST
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Optimal Sensor Placement with Using Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Mutual Information
5:45–6:05PM EST
Siyao Gu (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio), Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio)