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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
Monday, June 13, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey (Penn State)
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Overview of IAEA activities on Radwaste, Safety, and Security as well as International Guideline Productions for Small Specimens Test Techniques for Fusion
Sehila M. Gonzalez de Vicente (International Atomic Energy Agency), Nicholas A. Smith (International Atomic Energy Agency), Paula C. Vives (International Atomic Energy Agency), Masahiro Aoki (International Atomic Energy Agency)
Paper
Managing Fusion Radioactive Materials: Approaches and Challenges Facing Fusion in the 21st Century
Laila A. El-Guebaly (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Radioactive Waste Concerns for Fusion Reactors
Priti Kanth (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Mark Gilbert (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)
On Decay Heat in Fusion Reactors
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