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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
Thursday, October 7, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jason Hou (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Terry S. Haut (LLNL)
Student Producer:
Johnny Klemes (NC State Univ.)
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Simplified Thermal Expansion Modeling for Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors
10:40–11:05AM EDT
William C. Dawn (NC State Univ.), Scott Palmtag (NC State Univ.)
Paper
First Approach to Analyse Control Rod Withdrawal Transient in SFR With a Multi-Physics Methodology
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Marlène Jeannin (CEA), Vincent Pascal (CEA), Victor Blanc (CEA), Jean-Baptiste Droin (CEA), Laurent Buiron (CEA), Pablo Rubiolo (LPSC)
Coupled Multiphysics Multiscale Transient Simulations of the Mk1-FHR Reactor Using Finite Volume Capabilities of the MOOSE Framework
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Alexander Lindsay (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL), Robert Carlsen (INL), Javier Ortensi (INL), Derek Gaston (INL), Mark DeHart (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), April J. Novak (ANL)
Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm for Fast Reactor Reloading Optimization with Approximate Fitness Evaluation
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Michael Jarrett (ANL), Florent Heidet (ANL)
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