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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Tim D. Bohm (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Alternate Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
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Status of Design Activities of the DEMO Helium Cooled Pebble Bed Breeding Blanket in Europe
Guangming Zhou (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Francisco A. Hernandez (EUROfusion Programme Management Unit & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), Jarir Aktaa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), David Alonso (ESTEYCO), Frederik Arbeiter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Lorenzo V. Boccaccini (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Ion Cristescu (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Antonio Froio (Politecnico di Torino), Christophe Garnier (CEA), Mathias Jetter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Xue Z. Jin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Marc Kamlah (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Béla Kiss (Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)), Christina Koehly (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Christine Klein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Ivan A. Maione (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Luis Maqueda (ESTEYCO), Carlos Moreno (CIEMAT), Ivo Moscato (University of Palermo & EUROfusion Programme Management Unit), Iole Palermo (CIEMAT), Jin H. Park (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Volker Pasler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Dario Passafiume (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Pavel Pereslavtsev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Anoop Retheesh (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Álvaro Yáñez (ESTEYCO)
Paper
Tritium Breeding and Nuclear Heating Evaluation of Solid Breeder Concepts
Felipe S. Novais (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Calibration of a Mesoscale Tritium Transport Model for Ceramic Breeder Materials in TMAP8 Using Experimental Data
Pierre-Clement A. Simon (INL), Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL), Alexander D. Lindsay (INL), Masashi Shimada (INL)
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