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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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DOE contract boosts Centrus’s HALEU goals as Urenco continues LEU expansion
In the latest twist in a long-term, multistep contracting arrangement with the Department of Energy, Centrus Energy has signed a contract to finalize terms of a $900 million DOE task order to expand production capacity for high-assay low-enriched uranium at its American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The expansion is part of Centrus’s multibillion-dollar capacity expansion that also includes low-enriched uranium.
The new DOE award allows the company to transition its HALEU production cascade to a commercial-scale operation at Piketon. The contract also includes options for as much $170 million in HALEU purchases for DOE missions, for a total contract value of $1.07 billion. Those options are subject to the discretion of DOE.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|State
Session Chair:
Irina I. Popova
Alternate Chair:
Tucker C. McClanahan
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How Low Must You Go? De Minimis May Not Be the Threshold You Want, But It's the One You Need
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State), Lawrence Heilbronn (University of Tennessee-Knoxville), Paul Locke (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Lawrence T. Dauer (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
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The Stress Effect: How Radiophobia Skews Low-Dose Radiation Epidemiology
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Robert B. Hayes (NCSU)
Evaluation of Tissue Equivalency of Skin Imitation Layer for Localized Skin Dose Assessment
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Han Cheol Yang (Hanyang Univ.), Seung Beom Goh (Hanyang Univ.), Yong Kyun Kim (Hanyang Univ.)
Radiation Transport Modeling of Porous Structures at High Temperatures
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Nicholas Crenshaw (Univ. Texas, Austin), Austin Lo (GenAlpha Nuclear Technologies LLC), William S. Charlton (Univ. Texas, Austin)
