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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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Candidates announced for 2025 ANS leadership positions
As the U.S. election season finally comes to an end, the annual American Nuclear Society election season is right around the corner. Seventeen candidates have been nominated for the positions of ANS vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and six positions on the board of directors (four U.S. directors, one non-U.S. director, and one student director). Ballots will be sent via email on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, and must be submitted by 1:00 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Cabinet
Session Chair:
Pavel Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Blair P. Bromley
With the exception of remote regions or regions with very small grid demand (<300 MWe), it is anticipated that there should still be a good long-term market for large-scale modular reactors (LMRs) to replace clusters of smaller-sized thermal power generating stations using fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), and also to build new LMRs at existing reactor sites in the United States, and other nations, especially to supply baseload electricity for major urban centers and metropolitan regions with more than 1,000,000 people. The purpose of this panel discussion is to discuss and review design options, markets and tradeoffs for the implementation of larger-scale reactors that have a number of modular features that can help reduce absolute and relative capital costs, operational costs, and can reduce construction time periods, such that they will have some of the proposed and anticipated advantages of small modular reactors (SMRs). Another issue for consideration and discussion is the sustainability of the nuclear power industry, whereby a given vendor must manufacture and sell a minimum number of reactor units on a periodic basis in order to maintain financial sustainability and technical capabilities and manufacturing infrastructure. Discussion of energy storage and load following capabilities for LMRs is another important consideration.
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