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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 OPD
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|San Simeon A
Session Chair:
Aman Gupta (Univ. Idaho)
Alternate Chair:
Gale Hauck (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
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Overview of the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) Mission and Design
Daniel J. Walter (TerraPower), Kent Wardle (TerraPower), Zander Mausolff (TerraPower), Josh Walter (TerraPower), Jeff Latkowski (TerraPower)
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Fuel Salt Sampling and Enriching Technology Design Development -- Interfacing Systems Analysis and Project Update
Megan Harkema (Vanderbilt Univ.), Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Paul Marotta (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Characterization of Potential Construction Schedules for Advanced Reactors
Gale Hauck (ORNL), Cory Ball (ORNL), T. Jay Harrison (ORNL), Samantha Sabatino (ORNL)
Rethinking Deployment Scenarios for Advanced Nuclear
Andrew Sowder (EPRI), Dan Moneghan (EPRI)
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