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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC could improve decommissioning trust fund oversight, OIG reports
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission could do more to improve its oversight of decommissioning trust funds, according to an assessment by the NRC’s Office of Inspector General. In particular, the assessment, which was conducted by Crowe LLP on behalf of the OIG, identified four areas related to developing policies and procedures, workflows, and other support that would enhance NRC oversight of the trust funds.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Monroe
Session Chair:
Jeremy Whitlock (IAEA)
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Development of Advanced Neutron Signatures to Safeguard 233U in the Thorium Fuel Cycle
10:00–10:20AM EST
Oskar Searfus (Sandia), Peter Marleau (Sandia), Eva Uribe (Sandia), Igor Jovanovic (Univ. Michigan), Heather Reedy (Sandia)
Paper
Advanced Neutron Non-destructive Assay Methods for 233U Mass Quantification in Emerging Thorium Fuel Cycles
10:20–10:40AM EST
Vlad Henzl (LANL), Louise Evans (ORNL), Heather Reedy (Sandia), Matthew Cook (Y12 National Security Complex), Karen Hogue (ORNL), Daniel Jackson (LANL), Madeline Lockhart (LANL), Peter Marleau (Sandia), Richard Reed (ORNL), Alexander Roberts (Y12 National Security Complex), Oskar Seerfus (Sandia), Eva Uribe (Sandia)
Detection of Incipient Anomalies in Nuclear Systems Through Fusion of Multisensory Data with LSTM Autoencoder
10:40–11:00AM EST
Alexandra Akins (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Characterization of Dissolved High-Burnup Nuclear Fuel with Microcalorimeter, High-Purity Germanium, and Cadmium Zinc Telluride Gamma Spectroscopy
11:00–11:20AM EST
Mark Croce (LANL), Christine Mathew (LANL), Sophie Weidenbenner (LANL), Daniel McNeel (LANL), David Mercer (LANL), Katherine Schreiber (LANL), Matthew Carpenter (LANL), Rico Schoenemann (LANL), Wade Ivey (ORNL), Tammy Keever (ORNL), Lisa Duncan (ORNL), Haley Wightman (ORNL), Michael Dion (ORNL), Daniel Becker (Univ. Colorado), Joel Ullom (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Katrina Koehler (Houghton Univ.)
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