Four members of the Carnegie Mellon University alumni community, including a long-serving CMU trustee, and two faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The NAE is one of the highest professional distinctions for engineers.
Zoltan Cendes, Sebastian Ceria, Erroll Brown Davis Jr., Marija Ilic, Kathryn Jackson and William D. Magwood IV are among 106 new members and 23 new international members elected this year. I congratulate all of the Carnegie Mellon community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering on this well-deserved recognition of their leadership and contributions to engineering research and practice, said Farnam Jahanian, president of Carnegie Mellon. Their impacts in their respective fields are invaluable, as are their associations with our university. Their membership in the NAE is yet another reminder that the CMU community is home to the world s brightest minds and most remarkable leaders.
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DC Circ. Urged To Scrap Texas Nuclear Waste Site License
Law360 (February 10, 2021, 6:28 PM EST) Anti-nuclear advocacy group Beyond Nuclear Inc. on Wednesday asked the D.C. Circuit to stop the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from licensing an interim storage facility in the Permian Basin, arguing the license violates the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.
In a three-page petition for review, Beyond Nuclear argues the NRC in December wrongly approved Interim Storage Partners LLC s license application to build a facility in Andrews County, Texas, that would hold up to 40,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel. The license application requires the government to take ownership of the spent fuel before it is received at a repository, in violation of.
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Orano NPS has found no corrosion concerns or precursor indications of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in 20-year-old stainless steel canisters in use at three US dry storage facilities for used nuclear fuel. Regulatory inspections of the canisters, all of which were loaded into their horizontal, above-ground NUHOMS storage modules more than 20 years ago, were carried out as part of an ageing management programme to verify the NUHOMS system is performing as designed.
An team and equipment trailer conducting an inspection at a NUHOMS dry storage installation for used nuclear fuel (Image: Orano NPS)
The lead canister at each of the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations (ISFSIs) was inspected to fulfil US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing requirements for continued storage of used fuel in dry storage systems and site environmental evaluation criteria established by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Orano said. The Certificate of
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