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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NNSA furloughs 1,400 employees, pays contractors until end of month
After nearly three weeks of a government shutdown, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has furloughed 1,400 employees and has retained 400 as essential employees who will continue working without pay.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Malibu
Session Chair:
Jake Quincey (Oregon State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Troy Munro
Session Organizer:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Determining the Tensile Strength of Select TRISO-Coated Particle Layers
Tanner Mauseth (Idaho State), Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar (Idaho State), Fei Teng (INL), Subhashish Meher (INL)
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Preliminary Fuel Cycle Analysis of the -UB2 Composite Fuels in Pressurized Water Reactors
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Cihang Lu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Effects of Hydrogen on High Uranium Density Fuels
Adrian Gonzales (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Josh White (LANL), Elizabeth Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Understanding Composite Accident Tolerant Fuel with SiCf/SiCm for NuScale SMR Model: Reactivity Behavior and Potential Future Direction
Kyle V. Bean (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Macklin Zinselmeyer (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology), Kazuma Kobayashi (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology), Dinesh Kumar (Univ. Bristol), Syed Alam (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology)
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