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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.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|PSA Analyses: Methods and Applications
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|300A
Session Chair:
Valentin Rychkov (EDF)
Alternate Chair:
Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang University)
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
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Common Cause Failures -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Kenneth Kiper (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Mark Wishart (EPRI), Fernando Ferrante (EPRI), Matthew Degonish (Ameren)
Presented by Joshua Beckton (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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Recent Trends in Initiating Event Frequencies for Low Power Shutdown Events in the United States
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Doug Hance (EPRI), Leo Shanley (Jensen Hughes), Fernando Ferrante (EPRI)
Risk-Informed Comparison of Atmospheric Plume Models for Dose-Based Advanced Reactor Licensing Siting
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Jeffrey Wang (Georgia Tech), Daniel Clayton (Sandia), Shaheen Azim Dewji (Georgia Tech)
Implementing Offsite Power Fragilities for High Winds Assessments
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Ricky Summitt (ENERCON), Greg Meinweiser (ENERCON)
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