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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.
General Chairs:
Kostas Dovas (Exelon Generation)
Kostadin Ivanov (North Carolina State Univ.)
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Christopher McClain (Dominion Energy)
Drew Thomas (Idaho National Laboratory)
Scribe:
Michael Marler (Marler Consulting)
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Pat Berry (Patrick Berry Consulting, LLC)
Chuck Lease
Review Committee Chair:
Russ Coon (Exelon, retired)
Sponsorship Co-Chairs:
David Helling (Westinghouse)
Dan Randolph (X-energy)
Marketing/Social Media Chair:
Billy Wilson (OPG)
Committee Members:
Douglas Batche (Exelon)
Oum Keltoum Bouhelal (Higher National School Mines)
Lori Brady (Nuclear Energy Institute)
Susana del Alamo (Tecnatom)
Kenny Christian (INPO/NANT)
Juan Cortez (Callaway, Ameren)
Thomas Dean (Exelon Generation)
Lisa Edwards (EPRI)
Charlotte Hendrix (INL)
Gerry Hildebrandt (STPEGS)
Lois Jordan (INPO)
Bei Liu (Excelsior College)
Michael Johnson
Al Lowe (Southern Nuclear)
Lisa Marshall (North Carolina State University)
Jason Overstreet (Southern Nuclear)
Analiese Piraino (FENOC)
Brandon Starnes
Pam Terry (Westinghouse)
Jason Valtos (TVA)
Jeffrey Walton (TVA)
Ray Dean
Larry Lucas
Bert Barnes
Others:
Dan Carleton (Terrestrial USA)
Kathryn Hallman (EPRI)
John Hunsicker (Entergy)
Gregg Ludlam
Dan Roy (Accelerant Solutions)
Gregory Ruppert