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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 Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
Plenary Session
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EST|International Ballroom Center
Presented byJohn HopkinsPresident and Chief Executive OfficerNuScale Power, LLC
Space: the next nuclear frontier. These are the celestial trailblazers of the nuclear industry. Their continuing mission is to explore the cosmos, seek out new nuclear science and technology applications, and boldly go where no one has gone before! What role can nuclear play as the world proceeds into the 21st century’s version of the space race? In addition to highlighting recent successes and progress in the burgeoning field, we will ask each panelist to share their own personal vision for nuclear in space and the challenges to achieving their vision. While the dream of space exploration may have previously been reserved for a select few, this panel will traverse the myriad of ways in which recent advances in space flight will enable the future of industrialization and human habitation in space.
Moderator:Matt Wargon, P.E. Senior Nuclear Engineer, TerraPower, LLC
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