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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
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EDT|Marriott 4
Session Chair:
Ben Cipiti (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Michael S. Smith
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Assessing UN Neutronic and Fuel Performance for Extended Cycle Lengths
8:00–8:20AM EDT
Mehdi Asgari (ORNL), Jake Hirschhorn (ORNL), Eva Davidson (ORNL), Dave Kropaczek (ORNL), Andrew Godfrey (ORNL), Ryan Sweet (ORNL), James Tusar (Constellation), Moussa Mahgerefteh (Constellation), Baris Sarikaya (Constellation), William Gassmann (Constellation), Dale Bradish (Constellation)
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Excess Criticality Mitigation for Pebble Bed Reactor Fuels by Employing Burnup Credit
8:20–8:40AM EDT
Jonathan Wing (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Gordon M. Petersen (INL), Robert A. Joseph (INL)
Sodium Extraction from Full-Length Fermi-1 Blanket Assembly
8:40–9:00AM EDT
B.D. Preussner (INL), S. D. Herrmann (INL), R. C. Campbell (INL), T. DiSanto (INL), J. A. Charboneau (INL), I. M. Hobbs (INL)
Minor Actinide Fueled Chloride Salt Reactor: Economics, Neutronics, and Safety
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Matthew Nyberg (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Joseph Eickman (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Una Baker (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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