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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|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
L Vergari (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Discovering Electrochemical Mechanisms for Moisture Induced Molten Salt Corrosion
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Yongfeng Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Anton Schneider (LANL), Ximeng Wang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), David Andersson (LANL)
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Miniaturized Testing Technique for Fracture Toughness Evaluation of Irradiated Materials
3:35–3:55PM PDT
T.S. Byun (ORNL), David A. Collins (ORNL), Sunday C. Aduloju (ORNL), Ben E. Garrison (ORNL), Annabelle G. Le Coq (ORNL), Kory D. Linton (ORNL)
Correlating Damage with Acoustic Emission in Creeping 316 Stainless Steels
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Muhammad Khan (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Chenxi Xu (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Javier Obregon (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Derek Kultgen (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Didem Ozevin (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Matthew Daly (Univ. Illinois, Chicago)
Effect of Al Addition on the Microstructure and Radiation Response of Equiatomic CrFeMnNi and CrFeCuNi Alloys
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Saikumaran Ayyappan (NCSU), Kara Krogh (NCSU), Geoffrey Beausoleil (INL), Djamel Kaoumi (NCSU)
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