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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Standard Nuclear executes OTA with DOE
Reactor-agnostic TRISO fuel producer Standard Nuclear recently announced that it has executed an other transaction agreement (OTA) with the Department of Energy. As one of the five companies involved in the DOE’s Fuel Line Pilot Program, its entrance into this deal marks a milestone in the public-private effort to bring advanced fuel production on line in support of the DOE’s concurrently running Reactor Pilot Program.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
LianGe Zheng (LBNL)
Alternate Chair:
Jenn Frederick (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Simplified Computations of Radionuclide Transport in Complex Fracture Networks in Deep Crystalline Rock
1:00–1:20PM MST
Osvaldo Pensado (Southwest Research Institute), Stuart Stothoff (Southwest Research Institute), Mrityunjai Sharma (Uppsala Univ.), Joel Geier (Clearwater Hardrock Consulting), Auli Niemi (Uppsala Univ.), Chin-Fu Tsang (LLNL)
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Development of Radionuclide Transport Model in the Near Field Considering the Long-Term Evolution of Excavation Damaged Zone
1:20–1:40PM MST
Jaewon Lee (KAERI), Jung-Woo Kim (KAERI)
Effect of Considering Hydraulic Rock Mass Domain on Nuclide Transport in Fractured Rock
1:40–2:00PM MST
Yong-Min Kim (KAERI), Jung-Woo Kim (KAERI), Jaewon Lee (KAERI), Sung-Hoon Ji (KAERI)
DECOVALEX Task F DOE Crystalline Reference Case Results
2:00–2:20PM MST
Rosie Leone (Sandia), Emily Stein (Sandia), Jeffrey D. Hyman (LANL)
Modeling of Fractured Rock Under Stress for Nuclear Waste Disposal Applications
2:20–2:40PM MST
Teklu Hadgu (Sandia), Yifeng Wang (Sandia)
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