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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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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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WIPP’s SSCVS: A breath of fresh air
This spring, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that it had achieved a major milestone by completing commissioning of the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) facility—a new, state-of-the-art, large-scale ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the DOE’s geologic repository for defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in New Mexico.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Monday, November 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Mesquite
Session Chair:
David Richmond (PNNL)
Alternate Chair:
Peter Henry (Orano)
Session Organizer:
Brady D. Hanson
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Fuel Assembly Inspection After Extended Dry Storage
1:00–1:20PM MST
Robert Hall (EPRI), John Massari (Constellation Nuclear)
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316L Stainless Steel Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing and Characterization for Potential SNF Canister Production
1:20–1:40PM MST
Wei Tang (ORNL), Dominic Giuliano (ORNL), Oscar Martinez (ORNL), Kaushik Banerjee (ORNL), Andrzej Nycz (ORNL), Maxim Gussev (ORNL), Luke Meyer (ORNL), Derek Vaughan (ORNL)
Cold Spray Deposition and Surface Peening Technologies to Mitigate Stress Corrosion Cracking in Used Nuclear Fuel Storage Stainless Steel Canisters
1:40–2:00PM MST
Hwasung Yeom (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Nicholas Pocquette (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), John Lacy (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Jonathan Tatman (EPRI), Kenneth Ross (PNNL), Frank Pfefferkorn (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Kumar Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Development of a Drying Rig for AGR Fuel
2:00–2:20PM MST
James B. Goode (National Nuclear Laboratory), Marissa D. Morales Moctezuma (National Nuclear Laboratory), David I. Hambley (National Nuclear Laboratory)
Accelerated Relevant Atmospheric Corrosion Testing of Austenitic Stainless Steel for Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Environments
2:20–2:40PM MST
R.F. Schaller (Sandia), A. Knight (Sandia), R.M. Katona (Sandia), J. Taylor (Sandia), T. Montoya (Univ. Virginia), E. Karasz (Sandia), C.R. Bryan (Sandia)
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