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ANS names 2026 Congressional Fellows
Kasper
Hayes
The American Nuclear Society has officially selected two of its members to serve as its 2026 Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows. Alyssa Hayes and Benjamin Kasper will help the Society fulfill its strategic goal of enhancing nuclear policy by working in the halls of Congress, either in a congressional member’s personal office or with a committee, starting next January.
“The Congressional Fellowship program has put ANS in a unique position to provide significant technical assistance to Congress on nuclear science, energy, and technology, with great results,” said Congressional Fellowship Special Committee chair Harsh Desai, himself a former Congressional Fellow. “This once-in-a-lifetime professional development opportunity will allow them to learn the art of policymaking and potentially pursue it as part of their careers beyond the fellowship.”
Leonardo Romero, Luis Moreno, Ivars Neretnieks
Nuclear Technology | Volume 113 | Number 3 | March 1996 | Pages 316-326
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT96-A35211
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Radionuclides leaking from a damaged canister spread into the clay surrounding the canister and then migrate through various pathways into the mobile water in the rock fractures. To quantify uncertainties regarding the release to the far field, a sensitivity analysis is performed for variations in the parameters governing the release. Variations in the size of the damage in the canister, uranium solubility, sorption capacity of the clay, and hydraulic properties of the fractured rock nearest to the canister have to be accurately determined in order to minimize uncertainties in the release.
