Step 1: Online
Submission of Abstracts due by January
31, 2007
Authors should submit a one-page 1000 word abstract (text only) with name,
affiliation, address, phone, fax and email information to fuel@ans.org or SUBMIT
ABSTRACTS HERE. Please Indicate Topical Area Number. Topical
Area descriptions shown below. Click here for a list of technical
sessions.
Step 2: Online Submission of Draft Papers due by
April 1, 2006
Once abstracts have been accepted, authors may then upload their full-length
draft papers for review. Please send copies of both a PDF and Word file of
your draft to (email: fuel@ans.org or upload
DRAFT PAPERS HERE).
Please name your draft files according to your paper number (1001-draft.pdf,
1001-draft.doc). Instructions for preparation of full-length papers are
noted in the following four pages of the author kit entitled: “Guidelines
for Proceedings Manuscript Preparation”. Template
is also available in MS Word.
Step 3: Authors will be notified of paper review by
June 15, 2007
At this time you will be notified any comments for the preparation of your
final paper.
Step 4: Online Submission of Final Papers due by
July 15, 2007
Once draft papers are reviewed and approved, authors may then send their
final papers for CD-Rom Publication to (email: fuel@ans.org or upload
FINAL PAPERS HERE). Again, please submit both a PDF and Word file.
Please name your final paper files according to your paper number (1001-final.pdf,
1001-final.doc). Hard copies of papers are no longer required.
In addition to
your electronic files, please send:
(1) the signed "Agreement on
Copyright" by July 15, 2007 (faxed copy OK 1-352-392-8656)
Note that ANS will not edit or proof read your final paper.
Please DO NOT put page numbers on your final paper.
Track
1 – Advances in Nuclear Fuel Design and Fabrication
New
development and trends in fuel, rod, spacer grids, and assembly design; fuel
processing and fabrication; cladding alloy development; MOX fuels; advances
in fuel pellet development; fuel design for improved thermal hydraulics,
mechanical, and corrosion-resistant behavior.
Track
2 – LWR Fuel Performance and Operational Experience
Recent
fuel operating experience; performance of advanced fuel materials;
experience with high burn-up fuels; water side corrosion; stress corrosion
cracking; MOX fuel performance; post irradiation data on lead fuel
assemblies; irradiation experience in test reactors; radiation effects;
water chemistry and corrosion counter-measures.
Track
3 – Fuel Cycle, Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation
Fuel
cycle-related technologies; burn-up limits; burnable poison issues;
experience with interim storage facilities; spent fuel and regulatory
issues; nuclear fuel field service experience.
Track
4
– Transient Fuel Behavior and Fuel Performance Methodologies and
Test Facilities
Transient
fuel behavior such as RIA, LOCA and ATWS. Advances in fuel performance
modeling and core reload methodology, small- and large-scale fuel testing
facilities.
