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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
Thursday, December 2, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
Alternate Chair:
Session Organizer:
Jean C. Ragusa (TAMU)
Student Assistant:
Michael Seneca
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Considerations for NMA of Molten Salt Reactors
3:10–3:30PM EST
Nathan Shoman (Sandia), Michael Higgins (Sandia)
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Molten Salt Reactor Source Term Methodology
3:30–3:50PM EST
Sarah E. Creasman (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), T. Jay Harrison (ORNL), Lawrence H. Heilbronn (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Preliminary Neutronics Modeling of a Molten Salt iso-Breeder Reactor
3:50–4:10PM EST
C. Erika Moss (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Ondřej Chvála (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Harrison Reisinger (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Alexander M. Wheeler (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Coupled Multiphysics Simulations of Molten Salt Reactors Subjected to Earthquakes
4:10–4:30PM EST
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Kyung Tae Kim (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Som Dhulipala (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL)
Parametric Analysis of Salt-Driven MSR Design Domains
4:30–4:50PM EST
Dahvien V. Dean (Texas A&M Univ.), Jonathan Scherr (Texas A&M Univ.), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.)
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