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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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Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES 2023)
December 10–14, 2023
New Orleans, LA|New Orleans Marriott
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Lightbridge, Centrus to conduct study for pilot fuel fabrication plant
Signing CEOs: Centrus’s Daniel Poneman, left, and Lightbridge’s Seth Grae. (Photo: Lightbridge/X)
Nuclear fuel companies Lightbridge Corporation and Centrus Energy have announced a contract to conduct a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study to add a dedicated Lightbridge Pilot Fuel Fabrication Facility (LPFFF) at Centrus’s American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio.
Lightbridge chief executive officer Seth Grae and Centrus CEO Daniel Poneman inked the agreement yesterday at the COP28 conference, currently underway in the United Arab Emirates.
The FEED study, according to the joint announcement, will identify infrastructure and licensing requirements as well as the estimated cost and construction schedule for the LPFFF. Centrus’s wholly owned subsidiary, American Centrifuge Operating, will lead the study, which is expected to be completed sometime next year.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, November 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 7
Session Chair:
Jason Hou (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Open-Source Computational Model of a Molten Chloride Fast Reactor
3:15–3:35PM MST
Harrison Reisinger (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nathaniel Howard (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Maxwell Wagner (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Peyton Mann (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Molten Salt Reactor Modeling in SCALE: Effects of Multigroup Libraries on Depletion Analysis
3:35–3:55PM MST
Christopher E. Bayne (Georgia Tech), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Tech)
MSR Reactivity, Power, and Inventory Simulations with SCALE
3:55–4:15PM MST
Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Austin Lo (ORNL), Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Parametric Study of the Thorium-Based Molten Salt Reactor Core
4:15–4:35PM MST
Seda Yilmaz Kaygisiz (Purdue), Shripad Revankar (Purdue)
MSRE Transient Benchmark Development and Evaluation: NEUP Project Updates
4:35–4:55PM MST
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Mohamed Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), Benjamin Betzler (ORNL), Tingzhou Fei (ANL), Kurt Harris (Flibe Energy)
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