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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Ho Nieh, TVA board members, and nuclear fuel recycling bill head to Senate floor
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Ho Nieh, the Trump administration’s nominee to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and four new board members of the Tennessee Valley Authority were approved in a vote today by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and head to the Senate floor for a final vote.
The committee also voted to advance to the Senate floor the Nuclear REFUEL Act of 2025 (S. 2082), which would smooth the regulatory pathway for recycling used nuclear fuel.
President Donald nominated Nieh on July 30 to serve as NRC commissioner for the remainder of a term set to expire June 30, 2029, which was held by former NRC commissioner Chris Hanson, who Trump fired in June.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
Teresa Portone (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Chun Chang (LBNL)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Review of Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling at DOE's Legacy Sites for Improving the Fidelity of Performance Assessments
1:00–1:20PM MST
Haruko M. Wainwright (MIT), Amy Jordan (Neptune), Laren Foster (Neptune), Steve Yabusaki (PNNL), Philip Long (LBNL), Stefan Finsterle (Finsterle GeoConsulting), Paul Black (Neptune)
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Use of Virtual Tracers in Repository Performance Assessment Modeling
1:20–1:40PM MST
Paul E. Mariner (Sandia), Eduardo Basurto (Sandia), Dusty M. Brooks (Sandia), Rosie C. Leone (Sandia), Teresa Portone (Sandia), Laura P. Swiler (Sandia)
Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of FMD Model Choice for a Generic Crystalline Repository
1:40–2:00PM MST
Dusty Brooks (Sandia), Laura Swiler (Sandia), Paul Mariner (Sandia), Teresa Portone (Sandia), Eduardo Basurto (Sandia), Rosie Leone (Sandia)
Effects of Discrete Fracture Network Modeling Choices on Repository Performance Characteristics
2:00–2:20PM MST
Mariah Smith (Sandia), Teresa Portone (Sandia), Laura Swiler (Sandia)
Validation of the Sampling Methodology of Statistical Fracture Network Realizations for Three-Dimensional Nuclide Transport Analysis
2:20–2:40PM MST
Fumiko Yoshida (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Hiroyuki Umeki (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Hiromitsu Saegusa (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Kazuaki Mitsuyama (QJ Science), Hirokazu Takahashi (QJ Science), Wataru Haneishi (QJ Science), Hiroyasu Takase (QJ Science)
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