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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EST|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Harish Reddy Gadey
Alternate Chair:
Patrick Moosir
Session Organizer:
Michael Smith (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte)
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Progress in the Verification and Validation Efforts for START: A Spent Fuel Routing Tool
8:00–8:20AM EST
Harish R. Gadey (PNNL), Kacey D. McGee (PNNL), Patrick D. Royer (PNNL)
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Predicting Stress at Deformed Regions of SAVY-4000 Nuclear Material Storage Containers with an Experimentally Validated Finite Element Analysis Model
8:20–8:40AM EST
Joseph D. Hafen (LANL), Steven Lukow (LANL), Samrat Choudhury (Univ. Mississippi), Jonathan Gigax (LANL)
Scoping Analysis of Fuel Costs and Spent Fuel Volume for Small Pressurized Water Reactors
8:40–9:00AM EST
Assil Halimi (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Disposal MOX: A Combined Study of its Fabrication and Disposability
9:00–9:20AM EST
Jack Rolfe (Lancaster Univ.), Ian Robertson (Lancaster Univ.), Michael Bromley (Lancaster Univ.), Colin Boxall (Lancaster Univ.), Dave Goddard (National Nuclear Laboratory), Rosie Hibberd (Nuclear Waste Services)
Development of a Simple Improved Repository Risk Assessment Measure
9:20–9:40AM EST
Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Allen Croff (Vanderbilt Univ.), Irfan Ibrahim (Vanderbilt Univ.)
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