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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|Radioisotope Power Systems
Thursday, May 9, 2024|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Sweeney A
Session Chair:
Roberta Mulford (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Amanda Robertson (LANL)
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Status of Current Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator Programs at Aerojet Rocketdyne
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Kavon Kazemzadeh (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Leo Gard (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Andrew Lane (Aerojet Rocketdyne)
Paper
The Graph Becomes the Dataset -- Compiling Historical and Current RTG Data into one Place
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Christofer E. Whiting (Univ. Dayton), David F. Woerner (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Fifteen Years After the National Research Council Recommendations -- Radioisotope Power Systems Program Progress
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Thomas J. Sutliff (Aerospace Corp.), Ralph L. McNutt (Johns Hopkins APL), June F. Zakrajsek (Aerospace Corp.)
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Updating the Cassini-Era GPHS-RTG Life Performance Prediction Model in Preparation for the Next-Gen Mod-1 RTG Assessment
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Michael J. Durka (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Jean-Pierre Fleurial (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Kevin L. Smith (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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