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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.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Monday, July 17, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|301A
Session Chair:
Taejin Kim
Alternate Chair:
Thomas A. Ulrich
Session Organizer:
Ronald L. Boring
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Human Factors Considerations for Remote Operation of Small Modular Reactors
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Claire Blackett (Institute for Energy Technology), Gyrd Skraaning (Institute for Energy Technology), Magnhild Kaarstad (Institute for Energy Technology), Maren H. Rø Eitrheim (Institute for Energy Technology)
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Development of Scalable HFE Review Guidance for Advanced Reactors
3:40–4:05PM EDT
David Desaulniers (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Stephen Fleger (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Brian Green (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Niav Hughes Green (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Jesse Seymour (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), John O'Hara (Brookhaven)
The Role of HFE for Multi-Reactors Control Rooms for SMR
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Luis Rejas (Tecnatom), Mateo Ramos (Tecnatom)
Function Allocation Perspectives for Advanced Reactors
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Ronald L. Boring (INL), Torrey Mortenson (INL), Thomas A. Ulrich (INL), Roger Lew (Univ. Idaho)
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