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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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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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NRC updating GEIS rule for new nuclear technology
The Nuclear Regulatory Agency is issuing a proposed generic environmental impact statement (GEIS) for use in reviewing applications for new nuclear reactors.
In an April 17 memo, NRC secretary Carrie Safford wrote that the commission approved NRC staff’s recommendation to publish in the Federal Register a proposed rule amending 10 CFR Part 51, “Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory Functions.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|8:00–9:45AM MST|Acacia
Session Chair:
Jenna Payne (DOE-NE)
Alternate Chair:
Felicia Wright (NEUP/INL)
Session Organizer:
Andrew E. Thomas (INL)
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Laboratory Investigation on the Gas Flow Through Clay-Rock Interface in an Engineered Barrier System at Room Temperature
8:00–8:20AM MST
Muhammad Ali-Falak (TAMU), Marcelo Sanchez (TAMU), Enrique Romero-Morales (Univ. Politècnica Catalunya)
Paper
Design and Commissioning of a Very High Throughput Laboratory X-ray Emission Spectrometer for Noninvasive Study of the Redox Chemistry of Nuclear Storage Materials
8:20–8:40AM MST
Anthony Gironda (Univ. Washington), Jared Abramson (Univ. Washington), Sarah Saslow (PNNL), Gerald T. Seidler (Univ. Washington)
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