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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DOE awards $2.7B for HALEU and LEU enrichment
Yesterday, the Department of Energy announced that three enrichment services companies have been awarded task orders worth $900 million each. Those task orders were given to American Centrifuge Operating (a Centrus Energy subsidiary) and General Matter, both of which will develop domestic HALEU enrichment capacity, along with Orano Federal Services, which will build domestic LEU enrichment capacity.
The DOE also announced that it has awarded Global Laser Enrichment an additional $28 million to continue advancing next generation enrichment technology.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine A
Session Chair:
Jenifer Shafer
Alternate Chair:
Morris E. Hassler
Session Organizer:
Christina Leggett
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Computational Modeling of Induction Heating of Stainless Steel Surrogates for Uranium Metal-Based Fuel Rods for Development of a Zone Refining Process
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Hayden Hansen (Univ. Utah), Jon Dromey (Univ. Utah), Ethan Rose (Univ. Utah), Tae-Sic Yoo (INL), Michael Simpson (Univ. Utah)
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A Reprocessing Facility Optimization Tool for Fuel Life-Cycle Management and Advanced Reactor Fuel Supply
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Kevin Kelly (EPRI), Dan Moneghan (EPRI)
Towards Scale-Up of Group Actinide Co-Crystallizations and Investigating Tc-99 Behavior
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Jeffrey D. Einkauf (ORNL), Jennifer M. Pyles (Univ. Alabama, Birmingham), Luke Sadergaski (ORNL), Laetitia Delmau (ORNL), Bruce A. Moyer (ORNL), Jonathan D. Burns (Univ. Alabama, Birmingham)
Dissolution of ZrCl₄ in Eutectic LiCl-KCl for Chlorination of Metal Oxides
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Courtney Eckley (Univ. Utah), Michael F. Simpson (Univ. Utah)
Investigation of Selective Galvanic Reduction of MgCl2 from LiCl-KCl Eutectic Salt
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Forest M. Felling (Univ. Utah), Michael Simpson (Univ. Utah)
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