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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 RPD
Monday, June 14, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Dimitrios Cokinos (BNL)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (ANS)
This is a standing RPD session with papers on all general reactor physics topics of contemporary interest.
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Liquid-fueled Molten Salt Reactor Depletion Modeling
Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL)
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Area Method Physical Interpretation, Modelling, and Intrinsic Bias
A. Talamo (ANL), Y. Gohar (ANL)
Development and Test of a Novel Neutronic Verification Scheme for Molten Salt Reactors
C. Demazière (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), A. Mylonakis (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), P. Vinai (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
Studies on Enhanced Spatial Control with Low Enriched Uranium in Plate-Type Fuels
Hailey M. Green (ORNL), Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL), Andrew T. Nelson (ORNL)
Examination of the Reactivity Limitations and Burnable Poison Loading Requirements for the OPEN100 Core Concept
Andrew Hummel (Kennesaw State Univ.), Joshua Tolbert (Energy Impact Center), Michael Beckert (Energy Impact Center)
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