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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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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NRC’s David Wright visits the Hill and more NRC news
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the spotlight today for three very different reasons. First, NRC Chair David Wright was on Capitol Hill yesterday for his renomination hearing in front of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Second, the NRC released its updated milestone schedules according to the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) and the executive orders signed by President Trump last month; and third, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday, 28 former NRC officials have condemned the dismissal of Commissioner Hanson earlier this month.
Renomination: EPW Committee chair Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) opened the hearing with a statement praising Wright’s experience and emphasized the urgency of stable leadership at the NRC.
“China is executing a rapid build-out of its nuclear industry,” Capito said. “The demand for clean, baseload power is skyrocketing as we position America to win the AI race.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD|Cosponsored by ANSTD
Friday, December 3, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
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Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Student Assistant:
Zachary Deziel
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Fundamental Study and Demonstration of Core Monitoring by Ex-Core Detectors Based on the Power Correlation Between Fuel Regions
3:10–3:30PM EST
Rei Kimura (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions), Yuki Nakai (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions), Satoshi Wada (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions), Atsushi Sakon (Kindai Univ.), Tadafumi Sano (Kindai Univ.)
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Conceptual Development Methods for Heat Pipe Microreactors
3:30–3:50PM EST
Mikaela e. Blood (LANL), Alexis Maldonado (LANL), D. V. Rao (LANL)
Reactivity Control of Uranium Nitride Fueled Micro-Reactors with Burnable Poisons and Control Sliders
3:50–4:10PM EST
Aaron She (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)
New Burnable Absorber Loading Design in SMR No-Onsite Refueling Strategy Performance Assessment
4:10–4:30PM EST
Gray Chang (JFoster and Assoc.), Mie Hiruta (J Foster and Assoc.), Julie Foster (JFoster and Assoc.), Jim Harrell (Zachry Nuclear)
Design Analysis of a Micro Heat Pipe Cooled Reactor
4:30–4:50PM EST
Luay Alawneh (Texas A&M Univ.), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.), Harold G. White (Limitless Space Institute)
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