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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Latest News
X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Zeses Karoutas (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Kathryn Metzger (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Ernesto Pitruzzella (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Chona Vallencour (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Andrew Atwood (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Michael Boone (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Andrew Mueller (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Eileen Gower (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Ed Lahoda (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Allan Jaworski (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Arash Parsi (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Michael Anness (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Carey Haas (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Magnus Limback (Westinghouse Electric Sweden), Jonathan Wright (Westinghouse Electric Sweden)
Proceedings | TopFuel 2022 Light Water Reactor Fuel Performance Conference | Raleigh, NC, October 9-13, 2022 | Pages 98-103