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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 14, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Tennessee
Session Chair:
Nicolas Stauff (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
William N. Mann (ANL)
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Modeled Time-Consuming Activities and Cost Drivers of the MARVEL Microreactor Project
1:00–1:20PM EDT
Botros Hanna (INL), Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL), Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Yasir Arafat (INL)
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Market-Driven Competitiveness of U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Through 2035
1:20–1:40PM EDT
W. Neal Mann (ANL), Zhi Zhou (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL)
The Role of Nuclear Energy in Reducing System Costs of U.S. Electricity Grid Decarbonization
1:40–2:00PM EDT
W. Neal Mann (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL)
Automating Algorithm Management and Techno-Economic Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants: Introduction to the ACCERT Software
2:00–2:20PM EDT
Jia Zhou (ANL), Ed Hoffman (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL)
Demonstration of ACCERT Software for Nuclear Power Plant Techno-Economics
2:20–2:40PM EDT
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Botros Hanna (INL), Jia Zhou (ANL), Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Edward Hoffman (ANL)
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