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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Take steps on SNF and HLW disposal
Matt Bowen
With a new administration and Congress, it is time once again to ponder what will happen—if anything—on U.S. spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste management policy over the next few years. One element of the forthcoming discussion seems clear: The executive and legislative branches are eager to talk about recycling commercial SNF. Whatever the merits of doing so, it does not obviate the need for one or more facilities for disposal of remaining long-lived radionuclides. For that reason, making progress on U.S. disposal capabilities remains urgent, lest the associated radionuclide inventories simply be left for future generations to deal with.
In March, Rick Perry, who was secretary of energy during President Trump’s first administration, observed that during his tenure at the Department of Energy it became clear to him that any plan to move SNF “required some practical consent of the receiving state and local community.”1
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators
Technical Session
Thursday, December 2, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Lincoln East
Session Chair:
Yongqiang Wang (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Philip L. Cole
Student Assistant:
Mereym Murphy
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Investigating Radiation Effects in Materials using State-of-the-Art Particle Accelerators
1:05–1:25PM EST
Devon Drey (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Maik Lang (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Eric O'Quinn (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Will Cureton (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Changyong Park (ANL), David Sprouster (State Univ. of New York), Joerg Neuefeind (ORNL), Christina Trautmann (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)
Paper
Application of Particle Accelerators to the Degradation of Materials in the Nuclear Reactor Core Environment
1:25–1:45PM EST
Gary S. Was (Univ. of Michigan)
The coupled effects of irradiation and corrosion on materials
1:45–2:05PM EST
Blas P. Uberuaga (LANL)
Ultra-high temperature ion irradiation effects in nuclear materials
2:05–2:25PM EST
Di Chen (Univ. of Houston)
Effects of Carbon and DPA Rates on Void Nucleation in Self-Ion-Irradiated Pure Iron
2:25–2:45PM EST
Zhihan Hu (TAMU), Lin Shao (TAMU)
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