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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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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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New work for old FLiBe? DOE considers reuse of molten salt reactor coolant
FLiBe—a mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride—is not an off-the-shelf commodity. The Department of Energy suspects that researchers and reactor developers may have a use for the 2,000 kilograms of fluoride-based salt that once ran through the secondary coolant loop of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by NISD
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Kevin R. O'Kula
Session Organizer:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
In 2018 and 2021, fuel failure events occurred in research reactors at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) and NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) Reactor, respectively. While neither event resulted in significant radiological exposure, each of the affected reactor facilities paused operations to review fuel fabrication, training, operations, quality assurance, conduct causal analyses and other activities before returning to normal operations. An earlier panel session at the 2021 ANS Winter Meeting provided an update on where the two reactor facilities stood in their recovery efforts. This session will be a panel with key representatives from ORNL, NIST, and NRC staff that will discuss the events, the associated causal analyses, corrective actions, and lessons learned since the two events before recovery of full operations in both HFIR and NCNR.
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