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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
Tsvetoslav Pavlov (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Applications of High Energy Heavy Ion Irradiation for Nuclear Fuels and Materials Accelerated Testing
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Abdellatif Yacout (ANL), Bei Ye (ANL), Kun Mo (ANL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Sumit Bhattacharya (ANL), Laura Jamison (ANL), Peter Mouche (ANL)
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Post-Irradiation Analysis of Accelerator-Based High Energy Xe Ion Irradiation of U-10Mo
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Matthew J. Jasica (ANL), Peter A. Mouche (ANL), Laura M. Jamison (ANL), Abdellatif M. Yacout (ANL)
In-Situ Ion Irradiation of a Spent UO2 Fuel
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Sadman Sakib (NCSU), Yunyuan Lu (NCSU), Cameron B. Howard (INL), Chao Jiang (INL), Sudipta Biswas (INL), Dewen Yushu (INL), Jatuporn Burns (INL), Wei-Yeng Chen (ANL), Lingfeng He (NCSU)
Highly Porous Resolidified Tungsten Microstructures Under Fusion-like High Heat Flux and Focused Ion Beam
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Minsuk Seo (LLNL), A. Leigh Winfrey (State Univ. New York Maritime College)
Characterization of the Structural Changes of ZrB2 Ceramics Under Heavy Ion Irradiation
11:20–11:40AM PDT
Narrie Loftus (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Joseph Graham (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
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