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IAEA: Chernobyl drone strike latest threat to nuclear safety in Ukraine
Social media this past weekend screamed with reactionary posts following a drone strike last Friday at the site of the destroyed reactor from the 1986 Chernobyl accident. The drone—armed with a warhead—ripped a hole in the exterior shielding structure, caused a fire that took hours to extinguish, and left a hole larger than 500 square feet but so far has not caused any spikes in radiation levels at Chernobyl.
March 5, 2024|3:00–3:30PM (4:00–4:30PM EST)
Available to All Users
The ANS Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division invites you to a special members-only event on the development of a US-based UNF recycling pilot facility featuring SHINE Technologies Chief Technology Officer Ross Radel on this new initiative.
SHINE Technologies, LLC (SHINE) is a nuclear technology company based in southern Wisconsin. Much of their current focus is on medical isotope production, but they have begun to leverage that expertise to investigate used nuclear fuel (UNF) recycling. Notably, SHINE has designed, built, licensed, and is in the process of installing process equipment within a 10 CFR Part 50 licensed facility, wherein aqueous uranyl sulfate will be irradiated and then harvested for short-lived fission products such as Mo-99.
Leveraging this experience, SHINE is leading a venture to address the nation’s UNF disposal challenge by developing a facility that incorporates a game-changing set of interlinked technologies that reduce the environmental and economic impact of nuclear energy generation via recycling and, ultimately, transmutation of UNF. This approach will reduce the longevity and long-term radiotoxicity of high-level waste, will improve reprocessing economics via value-added isotope extraction, and will advance technologies to enable fusion energy generation. SHINE is leveraging design, construction, and operational experience gained from commercializing its medical isotope production facility to design an end-to-end UNF processing, recycling, and transmutation system.
This event will provide background on SHINE’s proposed technical processes for UNF recycling and isotope recovery and discuss the regulatory, statutory, and non-proliferation implications for constructing and operating such a facility in the U.S.
Presenter
Ross Radel,Chief Technology Office,SHINE Technologies
Moderator
Shikha Prasad, Senior Nuclear Physicist, SLB, ANS Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division Vice Chair
Biographies
Ross Radel
Ross has served as SHINE’s Chief Technology Officer since April 2021. He has over 20 years of R&D experience on a variety of fusion, fission, and particle accelerator technologies that are directly applicable to SHINE’s core technologies and is licensed as a Professional Engineer. From 2011 - 2021, Ross served as the Chief Executive and as a member of the board of directors of Phoenix Nuclear Labs where he led dozens of technical projects related to neutron generation and neutron-based detection methods. Prior to joining Phoenix, he served as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories where he worked to develop space nuclear power systems. Ross holds a PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research focused on high-flux fusion neutron generation for detecting clandestine materials such as HEU.