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The busyness of the nuclear fuel supply chain
Ken Petersenpresident@ans.org
With all that is happening in the industry these days, the nuclear fuel supply chain is still a hot topic. The Russian assault in Ukraine continues to upend the “where” and “how” of attaining nuclear fuel—and it has also motivated U.S. legislators to act.
Two years into the Russian war with Ukraine, things are different. The Inflation Reduction Act was passed in 2022, authorizing $700 million in funding to support production of high-assay low-enriched uranium in the United States. Meanwhile, the Department of Energy this January issued a $500 million request for proposals to stimulate new HALEU production. The Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024 includes $2.7 billion in funding for new uranium enrichment production. This funding was diverted from the Civil Nuclear Credits program and will only be released if there is a ban on importing Russian uranium into the United States—which could happen by the time this column is published, as legislation that bans Russian uranium has passed the House as of this writing and is headed for the Senate. Also being considered is legislation that would sanction Russian uranium. Alternatively, the Biden-Harris administration may choose to ban Russian uranium without legislation in order to obtain access to the $2.7 billion in funding.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Patrick Moosir (Sandia)
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Bridging the Fidelity Gap in System-Scale Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulations for Realistic State-Level Nuclear Material Accounting
10:00–10:20AM EST
Kathryn A. Mummah (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Paper
Monte Carlo Based Sample Optimization for Microcalorimeter Decay Energy Spectroscopy
10:20–10:40AM EST
Sophie Weidenbenner (Oregon State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State), Mark Croce (LANL), Katrina E. Koehler (LANL), Daniel McNeel (LANL), Timothy Ockrin (LANL), Katherine Schreiber (LANL), Rico Schoenemann (LANL), Matthew Carpenter (LANL), Ryan Fitzgerald (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Anomaly Detection in Gamma Source Search Spectra with Hopfield Neural Network on Quantum Computer Simulator
10:40–11:00AM EST
Luis Valdez (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Miltos Alamaniotis (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Optimizing a Neutron Multiplicity Counter Using Design of Experiments Methods
11:00–11:20AM EST
Rachel C. Connick (LANL), Nikolas D. Economy (LANL), John A. Corder (TAMU), Sarah E. Sarnoski (LANL), Rollin E. Lakis (LANL)
Development of Reactor Physics Models for Generating a Surrogate Model for the ISU AGN-201 Digital
11:20–11:40AM EST
Quinton Williams (Oregon State), Ryan Stewart (INL), Chad Pope (Idaho State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State), Todd Palmer (Oregon State), Ashley Shields (INL), John Darrington (INL), Mark Schanfein (INL), Gustavo Reyes (INL), Christopher Ritter (INL)
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