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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.
Meeting Spotlight
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
Standards Program
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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Sam Altman steps down as Oklo board chair
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 MCD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Jefferson East
Session Chair:
Shikha Prasad (SLB)
Alternate Chair:
Miriam Kreher (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Sebastian Schunert (INL)
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An Analysis of Two Variance Deconvolution Approaches for Stochastic Media Radiation Transport Using Conditional Point Sampling (CoPS)
10:00–10:20AM EST
Dominic Lioce (Univ. California, Berkeley), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia), Kayla B. Clements (Oregon State), Anil K. Prinja (Univ. New Mexico), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State)
Paper
Leveraging Geospatial Statistical Methods for Prediction of Radioactive Hotspots at Former Uranium Mine Sites
10:20–10:40AM EST
Nancy L. Glenn Griesinger (Texas Southern Univ.), Mark C. Harvey (Texas Southern Univ.)
Accelerating Finite Element Analysis Using a Multi-Fidelity Computational Scheme
10:40–11:00AM EST
Ian M. Aranda (LANL), Jean C. Ragusa (TAMU), Vedant K. Mehta (LANL)
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Preliminary Results for Uncertainty Quantification on Asymptotic Hydrogen Redistribution in a Prototypical Yttrium-Hydride Moderated Heat-Pipe-Cooled Microreactor
11:00–11:20AM EST
Quentin Faure (NCSU), Vincent Laboure (INL), Stefano Terlizzi (INL)
The Effect of Point Reactor Kinetics Solvers on the Accuracy of Nuclear Reactor Simulations
11:20–11:40AM EST
Thabit Abuqudaira (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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