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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX) target="_blank"
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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WIPP’s SSCVS: A breath of fresh air
This spring, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that it had achieved a major milestone by completing commissioning of the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) facility—a new, state-of-the-art, large-scale ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the DOE’s geologic repository for defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in New Mexico.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Noble
Session Chair:
Brady D. Hanson (PNNL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Hannah Patenaude
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Roadmap of Graphite Moderator and Graphite-Matrix TRISO-Fuel Management Options
1:00–1:20PM MST
C.W. Forsberg (MIT)
Paper
Extension of EPRI Benchmarks to Advanced LWR Fuels for SFP Criticality Depletion Uncertainty
1:20–1:40PM MST
Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik Scandpower), Joshua Hykes (Studsvik Scandpower), Hatice Akkurt (EPRI), Robert Hall (EPRI)
Incorporation of Accident Tolerant Fuel into the Back End of the Fuel Cycle
1:40–2:00PM MST
K. Banerjee (PNNL), P. Jensen (PNNL), N.A. Klymyshyn (PNNL), D. Richmond (PNNL), A. Rigato (PNNL), J. B. Clarity (PNNL), P. Miller (PNNL), N. Kucinski (ORNL), P. Stefanovic (ORNL), G. Petersen (INL)
Visualization of an Integrated Waste Management Concept of Operations in a Virtual Environment
2:00–2:20PM MST
Abiodun Adeniyi (ORNL), Paul Cantonwine (ORNL), Bruce Bevard (ORNL), Kevin Connolly (ORNL)
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