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Center for Used Fuel Research: Building confidence in storage and transport
Used nuclear fuel storage and transportation have reached a critical juncture.
Dozens of utilities need reliable data on how used nuclear fuel performs in dry storage casks and canisters to extend regulatory licenses at sites across the United States. Likewise, the Department of Energy expects to take ownership of the used nuclear fuel—termed “spent nuclear fuel” in the laws and regulations governing its stewardship—and transfer it to one or more federal staging facilities for management and disposition.
Meanwhile, dozens of reactor companies are testing prototypes of advanced reactors and advanced reactor fuels. Eventually, regulators and industry must also verify the safety and security of storage methods for these advanced fuel types.
To help address these challenges, the DOE established the Center for Used Fuel Research (CUFR) in January 2026 for work related to the long-term storage and transport of used nuclear fuel.
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.)
