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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 Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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The D&D of SM-1A
With the recent mobilization at the site of the former SM-1A nuclear power plant at Fort Greely, Alaska, the Radiological Health Physics Regional Center of Expertise, located at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Baltimore District, began its work toward the decommissioning and dismantlement of its third nuclear power plant, this time located just 175 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
S. Markelj (Jožef Stefan Institute), M. Kelemen (Jožef Stefan Institute), E. Punzón-Quijorna (Jožef Stefan Institute), T. Schwarz-Selinger (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik), X. Jin (Univ. Helsinki), F. Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki), K. Nordlund (Univ. Helsinki), J. Zavasnik (Jožef Stefan Institute), A. Sestan (Jožef Stefan Institute), M.L. Crespillo (Center for Micro Analysis of Materials), G. Garcia López (Center for Micro Analysis of Materials), R. Heller (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Proceedings | Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES 2023) | New Orleans, LA, December 10-14, 2023 | Pages 238-238