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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nuclear energy tax credits remain—for now—in latest federal budget
The U.S. House of Representatives pulled an all-nighter this week to narrowly pass (by a vote of 215–214) a revised budget plan Thursday morning and send it to the Senate for a reconciliation vote of its own.
Nuclear advocates have been monitoring the latest language regarding tax credits that have been in place since 2021 to help drive deployment. Earlier versions of the bill called for phasing out the nuclear credits.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|10:00–11:45AM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
Caitlin Condon (PNNL)
Alternate Chair:
Emily R. Stein
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Two Decades of Safety Case Development
10:00–10:20AM MST
Manuel Capouet (Ondraf/Niras), Ulrich Noseck (GRS), Paul Smith (Safety Assessment Mgmt.)
Presented by Tom Peake (US EPA)
Paper
Implementation of the French Cigéo Geological Disposal Project
10:20–10:40AM MST
Jean-Michel Hoorelbeke (Andra)
Development of the Repository Layout Options for the HLW Disposal in Japan
10:40–11:00AM MST
Tetsuhiro Ichimura (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Satoru Suzuki (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Yoichi Yamamoto (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan)
Case Studies of the Repository Layout Design in the Virtual SDMs
11:00–11:20AM MST
Satoru Suzuki (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Tetsuhiro Ichimura (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Hiromitsu Saegusa (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Yoshito Kitagawa (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan)
Evaluating Geologic Disposal Pathways for Advanced Reactor Spent Fuels
11:20–11:40AM MST
David Sassani (Sandia), Laura Price (Sandia), Heeho Park (Sandia), Edward Matteo (Sandia), Paul Mariner (Sandia)
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