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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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Ariz. governor vetoes “fast track” bill for nuclear
Gov. Katie Hobbs put the brakes on legislation that would have eliminated some of Arizona’s regulations and oversight of small modular reactors, technology that is largely under consideration by data centers and heavy industrial power users.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Cabinet
Session Chair:
David Chandler
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chairs:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Donny Hartanto (ORNL)
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Simplifying the Advanced Test Reactor LOWE Element Test Series
1:00–1:20PM EST
Marc Harron (MPR Assoc.), Doug Hardtmayer (MPR Assoc.), Ryanne Kennedy (MPR Assoc.), Curtis Brown (MPR Assoc.)
Presented by Eric Cichocki (MPR Assoc.)
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Predicting Safety Rod Reactivity Insertion in the Advanced Test Reactor
1:20–1:40PM EST
John Tortorello (MPR Assoc.), Curt Brown (MPR Assoc.), Ryanne Kennedy (MPR Assoc.), Nathan Manwaring (INL), Derreck Blight (INL)
Transport Modeling of As-Run ATR Cycles for U‐10Mo Fuel Qualification Experiment
1:40–2:00PM EST
Paul E. Gilbreath (INL), Dong O. Choe (INL), Margaret A. Marshall (INL)
Increasing Experiment Gamma Flux to Support Advanced Test Reactor Conversion
2:00–2:20PM EST
Brandon Harroff (MPR Assoc.), Doug Hardtmayer (MPR Assoc.), Ryanne Kennedy (MPR Assoc.), Alex Dean (MPR Assoc.), James Burke (MPR Assoc.)
Local Power Impact Experiment Design for Low Enriched Uranium for use in the Advanced Test Reactor
2:20–2:40PM EST
Erin Dubas (MPR Assoc.), Ryanne Kennedy (MPR Assoc.), Douglas Hardtmayer (MPR Assoc.), Thomas Dabrow (MPR Assoc.), Andrew Maille (INL), Michael Reichenberger (INL)
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