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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|Advanced Reactor Design and Analysis
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley B
Session Chair:
Guillaume Giudicelli (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Logan Harbour (INL)
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Improvements to the MOOSE Reactor Geometry Mesh Builder to Streamline Mesh Generation Workflows for Advanced Reactor Designs
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Shikhar Kumar (ANL), Logan Harbour (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Yeon Sang Jung (ANL), Emily Shemon (ANL)
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Fundamental Improvements to the MOOSE Reactor Module and Mesh System for Meshing Advanced Reactor Geometries
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Yinbin Miao (ANL), Aaron Oaks (ANL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Roy Stogner (INL), Soon Kyu Lee (ANL), Yeon Sang Jung (ANL), Shikhar Kumar (ANL), Emily Shemon (ANL), Kun Mo (ANL), Logan Harbour (INL)
Neutronics Analysis of a Lead-cooled Fast Reactor Using Griffin
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Zachary D. Bevans (NCSU), Javier Ortensi (INL), Scott P. Palmtag (NCSU)
APOLLO3-SCRAP Calculation Route for Solid-Fuel Fast Reactors Design Application
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Jean-Francois Vidal (CEA), Maciej Zajaczkowski (CEA), Laurent Buiron (CEA)
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