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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RRSD
Tuesday, June 13, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|California
Session Chair:
Adam J. Carroll
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Venugopal K. Varma
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Robotic Digital Twin of Mobile Robotic Hot Cell for Nuclear Waste Handling
3:15–3:35PM EDT
Young Soo Park (ANL), Venugopal Varma (ORNL), Edward Colgate (Northwestern Univ.), Sabri Cetin (Univ. Ilinois, Chicago), Anamary Daniel (Inspection Expert), Wendell Chun (Univ. Denver), Boaz Buechley (United Cleanup Oak Ridge), John Lee (Dept. of Energy)
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Recent Updates to KRAKEN: A MOOSE-Based Multiphysics Simulation Platform for Soft Materials and Robots
3:35–3:55PM EDT
Kevin Wandke (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Y Z (Univ. Michigan)
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