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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
Thursday, September 18, 2025|8:00–9:40AM CDT|Grand Salon DE
Session Chair:
James R. Cole
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Brittany Williamson
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Development and Implementation of a Nuclear and Criticality Safety Engineering Pipeline Course at North Carolina State University
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Tracy E. Stover (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)
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NCS Mentorship - Sandia Perspective, Lessons Learned, and Growth
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Andres Morell-Pacheco (Sandia), Ashley R. Raster (Sandia), James R. Cole (Sandia), John A. Miller (Sandia)
Formation of the UK Early-Careers Criticality Safety Network
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Jennifer H. Bateman (Sellafield), Jacob Willday (Sellafield), Holleigh Pearson (Urenco Capenhurst), Emma Sayce (Nuclear Transport Solutions), Nathan Sayle (United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory), Roksana Grzelak (NRS Dounreay), Tim Harris (Nuclear Waste Services), Paul Hunter (AWE), Harry Lester (Rolls-Royce), Callum Eldridge (Galson Sciences)
Progress on Implementing a Subcritical Assembly at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Nuclear Criticality Safety Training
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Alexander Lang (ORNL), Douglas G. Bowen (ORNL), Mathieu Dupont (ORNL), Walid A. Metwally (ORNL), Veronica V. Karriem (ORNL)
A Digital Compilation of Nuclear Criticality Papers from the American Nuclear Society Transactions Published from 1958 through 1999
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Brian L. Koponen (Golden Valley Publications), John Fabian (ANS)
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