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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 THD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 3
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Izabela Gutowska (OSU)
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Preliminary CFD Investigations for the NIST Neutron Source
3:15–3:35PM MST
Idan R. Baroukh (NIST Center for Neutron Research), Anil Gurgen (NIST Center for Neutron Research), Joy S. Shen (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Abdullah G. Weiss (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
Paper
Comparative Bounding Analysis of Inter-Assembly Heat Transfer Between DASSH and CFD
3:35–3:55PM MST
Milos Atz (ANL), SuJong Yoon (INL), Florent Heidet (ANL)
Development, Validation and Verification of MOSCATO: A CFD-Based Molten Salt Electrochemistry and Structural Corrosion Simulator
3:55–4:15PM MST
Haomin Yuan (ANL), Nathaniel Hoyt (ANL), Misun Min (ANL)
Numerical Investigation of Dimple Effects on Hydrodynamic Molten Salt Lubricated Bearings
4:15–4:35PM MST
Yuqi Liu (Univ. New Mexico), Daniel L. Barth (High Temperature System Designs), Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Shuai Che (Univ. Michigan), Minghui Chen (Univ. New Mexico)
Large Eddy Simulations of Low Prandtl Channel Flow with One Heated Wall for Developing Data-Driven Stochastic Emulators
4:35–4:55PM MST
Theodore M. Chu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Molly Ross (Purdue), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
