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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EST|Lincoln East
Session Chair:
Lu Makinde (University of South Florida)
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Molten Salt Sampling Techniques and Analytical Approaches
8:00–8:20AM EST
Janine Lambert (INL), Toni Karlsson (INL), Robert Hoover (INL), Ammon Williams (INL), Nathan Hoyt (ANL), Ken Marsden (INL), James King (INL), Jeff Sanders (INL)
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Material Control and Accountancy Approach for Liquid-Fueled Molten Salt Reactors
8:20–8:40AM EST
Karen Koop Hogue (ORNL), Steven Skutnik (ORNL), Louise Evans (ORNL), Matthew Krupcale (ORNL), Rabab Elzohery (ORNL)
Methodology for a Survey of Molten Salt Reactor Feed Monitoring Technologies for Safeguards
8:40–9:00AM EST
Karen Hogue (ORNL), Peter Sobel (ORNL), Steve Skutnik (ORNL), Mathew Swinney (ORNL)
Improved Safeguards of Molten Salt Reactors Using Process Monitoring
9:00–9:20AM EST
Nathan Shoman (Sandia)
Characterizing Impacts of Fast-Spectrum Molten Chloride Salt Reactor Design Choices on Safeguards-Relevant Parameters
9:20–9:40AM EST
Donny Hartanto (ORNL), David Chandler (ORNL), Karen Hogue (ORNL), Greg Westphal (ORNL)
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