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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Technical Session
Wednesday, September 17, 2025|1:00–2:40PM CDT|Grand Salon AB
Session Chair:
Cole Kolstelac
Alternate Chair:
Jesson D. Hutchinson
Session Organizer:
Rowdy Davis
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TRISO-form HALEU-fueled Experiment for Transport Applications (THETA) Experimental Design and Simulation Results
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Kristin N. Stolte (LANL), Alex Levinsky (LANL), Christopher B. Campbell (Kairos Power), Nader Satvat (Kairos Power), Theresa E. Cutler (LANL)
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The National Criticality Experiments Research Center: Accomplishments and Experiments Related to Criticality Safety in the Last Three Years
1:20–1:40PM CDT
George E. McKenzie (LANL), Kelsey Amundson (LANL), Theresa E. Cutler (LANL), Nicholas W. Thompson (LANL), Nicholas H. Whitman (LANL)
Quantifying Benchmark Submission Improvement with TSUNAMI-IP and TSURFER
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Rowdy Davis (Univ. New Mexico), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico), Larry L. Wetzel (LL Wetzel, LLC.)
Lilith: An Enduring Plutonium Critical Assembly
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Cole Kostelac (LANL), Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL), George E. McKenzie (LANL), Kristin N. Stolte (LANL), Robert C. Little (LANL)
Enhancements to the KENO Validation Benchmark for Spent Fuel Pool Criticality Analyses
2:20–2:30PM CDT
Robert Hall (Duke Energy), David S. Orr (Duke Energy)
Absolute Efficiency Characterization of Neutron Detectors within Radioisotope Identification Devices
2:30–2:40PM CDT
Nuria A. Putnam (TAMU), Craig M. Marianno (TAMU), Nicholas H. Whitman (LANL), Sam Meijer (LANL), Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL)
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