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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.
Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting (NCSD 2022)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Pacific A
Session Chairs:
David K. Hayes
Michael L. Zerkle (BAPL)
Session Organizer:
Theresa E. Cutler
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Experimental Steps Toward a Density Law for Chlorine-Crediting Criticality Models of Aqueous Plutonium Solutions
Kelly E. Aldrich (LANL), Dung M. Vu (LANL), Kimberly M. Bonilla (LANL), Justin N. Cross (LANL), Stephen P. Willson (LANL), Jennifer Alwin (LANL), David Kimball (LANL), James Bunsen (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Laura Worl (LANL), Riley Bulso (LANL), Alicia Salazar-Crockett (LANL)
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The CWS Experiments -- An Experimental Study of the Effects of Chlorine on Thermal Neutron Absorption
Theresa Cutler (LANL), Kelsey Amundson (LANL), Jesson Hutchinson (LANL), Noah Kleedtke (LANL), Nicholas Wynne (LANL)
Integral Experiments at Sandia with Molybdenum Sleeves for Testing 95Mo Cross Sections in a Thermal Energy Spectrum
Nicolas Leclaire (IRSN)
Experiments to Measure the Inversion Point of the Isothermal Reactivity Coefficient in a Water-Moderated Pin-Fueled Critical Assembly at Sandia
Gary A. Harms (Sandia), David E. Ames (Sandia)
CERBERUS Integral Experiment Design
Kelsey Amundson (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Nicholas Thompson (LANL)
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