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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|Sponsored by Fundamental Irradiation Damage
Monday, December 11, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Maylise Nastar (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA))
Alternate Chair:
Flyura Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki)
Track Organizers:
Steve Zinkle (University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mitra Taheri (Johns Hopkins University)
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Data-Driven Pseudo Real-Time Analysis of Defect Evolution
3:10–3:50PM CST
K. Burns (Univ. Virginia), E.J. Lang (Univ. New Mexico), C.A. Kohnert (LANL), K. Hattar (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Understanding Bias and Error in Human and Machine Learning Quantification of Swelling in Irradiated Materials
3:50–4:10PM CST
Gabriella Bruno (Univ. Michigan), Matthew J. Lynch (Univ. Michigan), Ryan Jacobs (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Nicholas Clancy (Univ. Michigan), Dane D. Morgan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Kevin G. Field (Univ. Michigan)
Microstructure Evolutions of Nuclear Materials Under Ion Beam Irradiations Using the Michigan In-situ Ion Irradiation Facility
4:10–4:30PM CST
K. Sun (Univ. Michigan), F. Naab (Univ. Michigan), K.G. Field (Univ. Michigan), G.S. Was (Univ. Michigan)
Comparison of Radiation Effects in Harvested Stainless Steel Baffle Former Bolts and HFIR Irradiated Wrought and Additively-Manufactured Stainless Steel
4:30–4:50PM CST
T.G. Lach (ORNL), M.N. Gussev (ORNL), T.S. Byun (ORNL), A.G. LeCoq (ORNL), K.D. Linton (ORNL), X. Chen (ORNL)
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