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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
Tuesday, October 5, 2021|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Sebastian Schunert (INL)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
Nicholas Herring (Univ. of Michigan)
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Implementation of Generalized Incore Detector Responses in MPACT
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Erik Walker (ORNL), Shane Stimpson (ORNL), Benjamin Collins (ORNL), Andrew Godfrey (ORNL), James Eller (ORNL)
Paper
Multi-Reactor, Multicycle Optimization of Core Reload Design for an SMR Power Plant
1:45–2:10PM EDT
Ben Lilley (Oregon State Univ.), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State Univ.)
Revisiting the Calculation of Non-Fundamental Flux Modes in a CANDU Reactor
2:10–2:35PM EDT
Alain Hebert (Polytechnique Montreal)
Innovative Multiple Energy Grid Deterministic Method to Treat Core-Reflector Interfaces
2:35–3:00PM EDT
Fiona Desplats (CEA), Pascal Archier (CEA), Jean-François Vidal (CEA), Jean-Marc Palau (CEA), Roland Lenain (CEA), Emiliano Masiello (CEA)
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