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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 Fuels and Actinide Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Elizabeth S. Sooby (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Alternate Chair:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Track Organizers:
Jian Gan (INL)
Michael Tonks (Univ. Florida)
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Thermodynamic Assessment of NaF-KF-UF4 for Molten Salt Reactor Design
3:10–3:30PM CST
L. Voigt (Seaborg Technologies), M. Fache (JRC European Commission), J. Ocadiz Flores (Delft Univ. Technology), L. Ruszczynski (Delft Univ. Technology), J.T.M. Amphlett (Seaborg Technologies), A.L. Smith (Delft Univ. Technology), O. Beneš (JRC European Commission)
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Accelerated Isothermal MiniFuel Irradiations Using Liquid Metal Encapsulation
3:30–3:50PM CST
Zane Wallen (ORNL), Ryan Gallagher (Kairos Power), Kara Godsey (ORNL), Annabelle Le Coq (ORNL), Christian Petrie (ORNL), Caleb Massey (ORNL), Richard Howard (ORNL), Jorge Navarro (ORNL), Jim Nash (ORNL)
Atomic Scale Investigation of the Effect of Americium on the Properties of Nuclear Oxide Fuels
3:50–4:10PM CST
B. Labonne (CEA), C. Gueneau (CEA), M. Bertolus (CEA)
Correlating Atomic Structure with Elastic Properties in Non-Textured Pyrocarbon
4:10–4:30PM CST
Raphaelle David (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Yongfeng Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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