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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
Technical Session
Wednesday, September 17, 2025|10:00–11:40AM CDT|Grand Salon DE
Session Chair:
Mandy Bowles Tomaszewski (LLNL)
Alternate Chair:
Adam Walker (Y-12 Nat'l Security Complex)
Session Organizer:
Shauntay Coleman
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Impact of Aging on Geometrically Safe Equipment
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Camille Jacques-Gasnot (ORANO Projets), Gregory Caplin (ORANO Projets), Remi Vassieux (ORANO Recyclage)
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Conception of a Waste Storage Containing Fissile Materials: Evolution of the Calculation Methodology at the CEA from 1970 to our Days
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Michael Prigniau (CEA), Romain Jolivel (CEA), Mouloud Belaïd (CEA)
Control Selection for the Neutralization Tank in the Aqueous Recovery System at the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Phillip Dressman (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions), Brittany M. Williamson (Spectra Tech), Jaylen Jones (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)
Responding to Abnormal Field Conditions: Challenges and Lessons Learned
11:00–11:10AM CDT
Christian Artunduaga (Y-12 Nat'l Security Complex)
An Operational Approach to Justifying the Use of the Sum of Fractions Method
11:10–11:20AM CDT
Sandra Larson (21 Consulting Group), Kyle Moyant (Salado Isolation Mining Contractors)
Effects of a Composite Water-Steel Reflector on keff for Fast Metal System
11:20–11:30AM CDT
Michael I. McDonald (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions), James S. Baker (Spectra Tech)
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