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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DOE awards $2.7B for HALEU and LEU enrichment
Yesterday, the Department of Energy announced that three enrichment services companies have been awarded task orders worth $900 million each. Those task orders were given to American Centrifuge Operating (a Centrus Energy subsidiary) and General Matter, both of which will develop domestic HALEU enrichment capacity, along with Orano Federal Services, which will build domestic LEU enrichment capacity.
The DOE also announced that it has awarded Global Laser Enrichment an additional $28 million to continue advancing next generation enrichment technology.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|PSA Analyses: Methods and Applications
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|300B
Session Chair:
Alexander J. Huning (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
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Quantifying the Likelihood of Nuclear Supply Chain Shortage Risk
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Daniel Nevius (NCSU), Mihai Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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Availability Evaluation of HP-STMCs Space Nuclear Reactor Power System
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Xinyan Xu (Univ. Science and Technology of China), Changhong Peng (Univ. Science and Technology of China)
Probabilistic Safety Assessment Methodology for the Transportation of Radioactive Material
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Manorma Kumar (Polytechnic Univ. Catalonia), Guillem Cortes-Rossell (Polytechnic Univ. Catalonia)
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Risk-Informed Opportunities and Challenges for Microreactors
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Alexander J. Huning (ORNL), David E. Shropshire (INL), Efe Kurt (INL)
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