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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Deep Isolation validates its disposal canister for TRISO spent fuel
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation announced it has successfully completed Project PUCK, a government-funded initiative to demonstrate the feasibility and potential commercial readiness of its Universal Canister System (UCS) to manage TRISO spent nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ANSTD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|10:00–11:45AM MST|Sonoran 6
Session Chair:
Jeffrey C. King
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Paolo F. Venneri
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Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Data and Testing Gaps for TRISO-Based Fuel
10:00–10:20AM MST
Brian Ade (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Andrew Falkowski (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Caen Ang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Tom Hinklin (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Ethan Chaleff (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.)
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Thermal Modeling and Analysis of the SIRIUS-2 Experiment
10:20–10:40AM MST
Frederick N. Gleicher (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Ishita Trivedi (INL), Mark D. DeHart (INL)
Analysis of Modified Reactor Cavity Cooling System for Nuclear Power Plant in Europa
10:40–11:00AM MST
Kyung Bae Jang (Cyber Univ. Korea), Chang Hyun Baek (Cyber Univ. Korea), Tae Ho Woo (Cyber Univ. Korea)
Design Considerations and Analysis Methodology for the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket
11:00–11:20AM MST
Nicholas Dunkle (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), Harrison Reisinger (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville)
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