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Center for Used Fuel Research: Building confidence in storage and transport
Used nuclear fuel storage and transportation have reached a critical juncture.
Dozens of utilities need reliable data on how used nuclear fuel performs in dry storage casks and canisters to extend regulatory licenses at sites across the United States. Likewise, the Department of Energy expects to take ownership of the used nuclear fuel—termed “spent nuclear fuel” in the laws and regulations governing its stewardship—and transfer it to one or more federal staging facilities for management and disposition.
Meanwhile, dozens of reactor companies are testing prototypes of advanced reactors and advanced reactor fuels. Eventually, regulators and industry must also verify the safety and security of storage methods for these advanced fuel types.
To help address these challenges, the DOE established the Center for Used Fuel Research (CUFR) in January 2026 for work related to the long-term storage and transport of used nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|12:30–2:15PM EST |Gunston
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Student Assistant:
Brison Cowan
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An Investigation of Three-Batch Fuel Management in a Natural Circulation Soluble Boron Free SMR
12:35–12:55PM EST
Steven Wijaya (KAIST), Xuan Ha Nguyen (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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Three-Batch Soluble-Boron-Free ATOM Core Design with Pan-Shape CSBA
12:55–1:15PM EST
Xuan Ha Nguyen (KAIST), Steven Wijaya (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Molten Salt Reactor Kinetics in Zero Power Approximation
1:15–1:35PM EST
Visura Pathirana (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Chelsea Fontaine-Holl (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Independent Assessment of Transformational Challenge Reactor Fuel Lattice
1:35–1:55PM EST
Yeongshin Jeong (MIT), Wei Li (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Alternate Design of the Bottom Reflector of the Transformational Challenge Reactor
1:55–2:15PM EST
A. Talamo (ANL), S.N.P. Vegendla (ANL), A. Bergeron (ANL), F. Heidet (ANL), B. Ade (ORNL), B.R. Betzler (ORNL)
