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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NEA report calls for more accurate data on SNF heat decay
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has issued a report calling for more-detailed information on tracking the decay heat of spent nuclear fuel from light water reactors. According to the NEA, the report highlights the increasing importance of accurate decay heat estimations due to evolving fuel characteristics, including higher initial fuel enrichment, increased burn-up rates, and extended reactor cycle lengths.
The report, Summary of the NEA Assessment on Spent Nuclear Fuel Decay Heat for Light Water Reactors, summarizes the findings of a subgroup of the NEA’s Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS), which ran from January 2022 to January 2024.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EST|Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Tina Hernandez (Sandia)
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Confidence Evaluation for Nuclear Enterprise Arms Control
8:00–8:20AM EST
Jen Huckett (PNNL), Jan Irvahn (PNNL), Robert Brigantic (PNNL), Brenda Forland (PNNL), Julianna Puccio (PNNL)
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Zero-Knowledge Protocol Imaging for Future Arms Control Treaties
8:20–8:40AM EST
Andrew J. Gilbert (PNNL), Jade E. Holliman (PNNL), Aliyah St Louis-Alleyne (PNNL), Robert J. Goldston (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Phillip Kerr (LLNL)
Passive Signatures in Arms Control Confirmation Technologies
8:40–9:00AM EST
Sean Stave (PNNL), Phil Kerr (LLNL), Kyle Polack (Sandia)
PROACTIVE Research for Characterizing Shielded Uranium via Active Interrogation in Arms Control Contexts
9:00–9:20AM EST
Marc A. Wonders (LLNL), Paul Hausladen (ORNL)
PASSIVE: A Passive Attribute Signatures Suite for Item Verification Experiments
9:20–9:40AM EST
Jawad R. Moussa (Sandia), Kyle Polack (Sandia), Gregory Thoreson (Sandia), Phoenix Baldez (Sandia), Ryan Kamm (Sandia)
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