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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Monday, November 13, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Jefferson West
Session Chair:
Stephen T. Lam
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Wear and Friction of Nuclear Graphite in FLiBe
3:15–3:35PM EST
L. Vergari (Univ. California, Berkeley), J. Xu (Univ. California, Berkeley), R. O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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A Comparison of Mass Loss Analyses for Molten Salt Corrosion
3:35–3:55PM EST
Ryan D. Hayes (Univ. California, Berkeley), Sean H. Mills (Univ. California, Berkeley), Gabriel Meric de Bellefon (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Dan Thoma (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Andrew Minor (Univ. California, Berkeley), Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Drivers and Limiting Steps for Corrosion in Molten Salt Loops
3:55–4:15PM EST
Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Presented by Randall Chiu (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Development of Enriched Uranium-Bearing Molten Salt Irradiation Capability
4:15–4:35PM EST
Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Stephen Warmann (INL), Calvin Downey (INL), Morgan Kropp (INL), Greg Core (INL), Chuting Tsai (INL), William Phillips (INL)
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