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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|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)
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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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