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Nuclear Criticality Safety
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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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WIPP improves utility shaft safety, begins infrastructure project
Harrison Western Shaft Sinkers (HWSS), the company drilling a new utility shaft at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, has retained a safety culture expert following a near-miss accident in the shaft late last year. The safety expert will conduct monthly facilitated discussions with crews working on the shaft to reinforce expectations for identifying concerns regarding unsafe circumstances, according to a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB).
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Mesquite
Session Chair:
James Goode (UK NNL)
Alternate Chair:
Steve Skutnik (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Brady Hanson (PNNL)
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Measurement of Aerosol Transmission Through a Stress Corrosion Crack-Like Geometry
1:00–1:20PM MST
Samuel Durbin (Sandia), Ramon Pulido (Sandia), Philip Jones (Sandia), Adrian Perales (Sandia)
Paper
Applications of a New Probability Methodology for Corrosion Propagation Rate with Confidence Bounds for Dry Storage Canister Safety
1:20–1:40PM MST
Joshua Hoskinson (Colorado School of Mines), William Navidi (Colorado School of Mines), Zeev Shayer (Univ. New Mexico)
Environmental Impacts on Thermal Performance of Spent Fuel Storage Systems
1:40–2:00PM MST
David J. Richmond (PNNL), Ben J. Jensen (PNNL)
Developments into Understanding Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Canister Surface Environments
2:00–2:20PM MST
A.W. Knight (Sandia), R. Katona (Sandia), M. Maguire (Sandia), B. Nation (Sandia), J.M. Taylor (Sandia), R.F. Schaller (Sandia), C.R. Bryan (Sandia)
Towards Structural Integrity Investigations of Spent Nuclear Fuel Assemblies with Finite Element Analysis
2:20–2:40PM MST
Olympios Alifieris (Nagra), Efstathios Vlassopoulos (Nagra), Susanne Pudollek (Nagra), Michail Hadjigeorgiou (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), Dimitrios Papaioannou (European Commission, JRC), Ramil Nasyrow (European Commission, JRC), Vincenzo V. Rondinella (European Commission, JRC), Stefano Caruso (Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant)
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