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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 FCWMD
Monday, June 13, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Santa Monica
Session Chair:
Benjamin B. Cipiti (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Mark Schanfein (INL)
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3S-Informed Security for Next Generation Nuclear Facilities
Ben Cipiti (Sandia), Alan Evans (Sandia)
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Developing 3D Printing Remotely Interrogated Sensors for Fuel Cycle Safeguards
Jake Marr (Purdue), Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue), Vasileios Theos (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Gallium Oxide Schottky Barrier Diodes for Alpha Spectroscopy
Christopher Heckert (Ohio State), Neil R. Taylor (Ohio State), Sushovan Dhara (Ohio State), Siddharth Rajan (Ohio State), Lei R. Cao (Ohio State), Thomas E. Blue (Ohio State)
Heat Signature Computational Simulation Results for Safeguarded Spent Nuclear Fuel
Alvaro Pizarro-Vallejos (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Michael D. Kaminski (ANL), Jeffrey Fortner (ORNL)
Model Refinement Studies for Molten Salt Freeze Port Conceptual Design Using COMSOL
Megan Harkema (Vanderbilt Univ.), Paul Marotta (Vanderbilt Univ.), Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.)
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