American Nuclear Society ANDM III 2003
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Call for Papers

Papers are solicited in all areas covering the breadth of front-end nuclear fuel management activities, within the context of reactor physics and fuel cycle economics. Topics range from methods development and verification to design and implementation of new in-core fuel products and strategies.

Innovative Core Loading Strategies and Methods
Advanced Burnable Poison and Lattice Designs
Addressing Practical Design Constraints On Fuel Management
Utilities Experience in Reload Design and Licensing
Very Long Life Core Design and Straight-Burn Cycles
Extended Fuel Cycle and Economics Analysis
On-Power Refueling Fuel Management
Nodal and Lattice Physics Methods
Developing and Benchmarking of Cross-Section Libraries for LWR Fuel
Whole Core Transport Calculations
Automated and Interactive Fuel Management Design and Optimization Tools
Best Estimate Analysis Tools for Improving Fuel Cycle Performance
Validation of Core Analysis Tools for Fuel Management
Model Comparisons Against Measured Power Reactor Data
Fuel Temperature Feedback Modeling for Steady-State and Transients
Advances in Reactor Stability Analysis
Generation-III Fuel Cycle Design Concepts
Generation-IV Fuel Cycle Design Concepts
MOX Utilization in Reactors
Reactor-Based Plutonium Disposition
Fuel and Core Design Based on Thorium Cycles
Management, Design and Operational Issues of Advanced Reactor Fuels
Research and Isotope Reactors Fuel Management
Core Design and Reactor Training Simulators
Experiences and Advances In On-Line Core Monitoring

Panel Discussion Topics
Adequacy of Nuclear Design Methods for Current Generation Core Designs
Contrasting Fuel Management Strategies World Wide

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Deadlines

Electronic Submission of Reduced Length Paper - March 15, 2003 closed on April 20, 2003.
Author Notification of Acceptance - May 26, 2003
Final Paper Submission (Full Length) - July 1, 2003