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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NNSA furloughs 1,400 employees, pays contractors until end of month
After nearly three weeks of a government shutdown, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has furloughed 1,400 employees and has retained 400 as essential employees who will continue working without pay.
Yuji Fukaya, Shohei Ueta, Tomohiko Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Chikazawa, Xing L. Yan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 335-346
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2021.1901001
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When total volume control is applied to toxicity in nuclear waste management it becomes a limiting factor for the permittable total operating capacity of nuclear reactors. An alternative conceptual scenario is proposed, aimed at toxicity reduction through partitioning and transmutation. Specifically, the electricity generation capacity could be increased by transmutation of 90Sr and 137Cs. Simultaneously, the cooling time before disposal is reduced to 50 years from the 300 years required by existing scenarios, such as the accelerator-driven system. Finally, the scenario is also found to be feasible in terms of energy balance and cost, using an Li(d,xn) reaction neutron source with a deuteron accelerator for transmutation.