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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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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|10:00–11:45AM MST|Mesquite
Session Chair:
Chaithanya Balumuru
Alternate Chair:
Ryan Katona (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Brady D. Hanson
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Overview of Deposition Models for Canister Ageing Management
10:00–10:20AM MST
Sarah R. Suffield (PNNL), Philip Jensen (PNNL), William Perkins (PNNL), Ben Jensen (PNNL), Brady Hanson (PNNL), Steven Ross (PNNL), Christopher Grant (PNNL), Casey Spitz (PNNL)
Paper
Design of a Steel-Plate Composite Horizontal Storage Module for Spent Nuclear Fuel
10:20–10:40AM MST
Si-Hwan Park (Orano TN Americas), Ahmad Salih (Orano TN Americas)
Presented by Dimitris Hadjiharitou (Orano TN)
Vickers Microindentation Hardness of Post Irradiation Zirconium Alloy Cladding
10:40–11:00AM MST
L.I. Richmond (PNNL), A.P. Goulet (PNNL), R.D. Torres (PNNL), B.E. Westman (PNNL), B.D. Hanson (PNNL)
New Radiochemical Assay Experiments to Improve the Validation Basis for High Burnup Fuel
11:00–11:20AM MST
Germina Ilas (ORNL), Bruce Bevard (ORNL), Joseph Giaquinto (ORNL), Cole Hexel (ORNL), Benjamin Roach (ORNL)
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