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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Why should safeguards by design be a global effort?
Jeremy Whitlock
I can’t think of a more exciting time to be working in nuclear, with the diversity of advanced reactor development and increasing global support for nuclear in sustainable energy planning. But we can’t lose sight of the need to plan for efficient international safeguards at the same time.
Global nuclear deployment has been underpinned since 1970 by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), making it a key customer requirement for governments to demonstrate unequivocally that the technology is not being misused for weapons development.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has helped verify this commitment for more than 50 years, but it has never safeguarded many of the advanced reactors (and related fuel cycle processes) being developed today.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Fatma Abdelrahman
Alternate Chair:
Jeffrey A. Favorite
Session Organizer:
Amir A. Bahadori
Student Assistant:
Mitchell Mika
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Calculating the Differential Physics of Neutron Transport in Oxygen Based on Integral Experiments from the Livermore Pulsed Sphere Program
10:05–10:25AM EST
L. M. Rolison (LANL), M. L. Fensin (LANL), K. C. Kelley (LANL), S.S. McCready (LANL)
Paper
Investigation of a Portable Active Neutron Interrogation System Using MCNP
10:25–10:45AM EST
Sanchit Sharma (Kansas State Univ.), Diego Laramore (Kansas State Univ.), William L. Dunn (Kansas State Univ.), Walter J. McNeil (Kansas State Univ.), Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State Univ.)
Impact of Fission Spectrum Modeling on Aging Estimations of Pressurized Water Reactor Vessels
10:45–11:05AM EST
Romain Vuiart (IRSN), Patrizio Console Camprini (ENEA), Kenneth W. Burn (ENEA), Mariya Brovchenko (IRSN), Julien Taforeau (IRSN), Eric Dumonteil (CEA)
Sensitivity of Pressurized Water Reactors Vessels Aging to Fuel Composition
11:05–11:25AM EST
Benjamin Benedet (IRSN), Romain Vuiart (IRSN), Julien Taforeau (IRSN), Mariya Brovchenko (IRSN)
A (Meta-)Model Driven Approach to MCNP Modeling and Editor Services
11:25–11:45AM EST
Peter J. Kowal (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Jonathan A. Eugenio (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Kurt A. Dominesey (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Camden E. Blake (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Robert A. Lefebvre (ORNL), Forrest B. Brown (Univ. of New Mexico), Wei Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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