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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|Severe Accidents
Thursday, August 24, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
David L. Luxat
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Fulvio Mascari
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The SAIGA In-Pile Experimental Test to Study the Degradation of a SFR Core with Mitigation Devices in Severe Accident Conditions
9:00–9:20AM EDT
F. Payot (CEA), F. Charollais (CEA), E. Dufour (CEA), Y. Lejeail (CEA), G. Blevin (CEA), L. Trotignon (CEA), G. De Izarra (CEA), F. Michel (CEA), V. Dupont (CEA), N. Chikhi (CEA), R. Clavier (CEA), E. Batyrbekov (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), A. Vurim (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), A. Pakhnits (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), V. Baklanov (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
Paper
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Experiments and Modeling of Water-Cooled SMR Severe Accidents to Inform Level 4 and 5 Defence-in-Depth
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Luke Lebel (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Andrew Morreale (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Eric Jia (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Feng Zhou (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), David Hummel (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Scott Ormiston (Univ. Manitoba), Geoffrey Gray (Univ. Manitoba)
Preliminary Analysis of Severe Accident in Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Using Eutectic Reaction Model of Boron-Carbide Control-Rod Material
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Hidemasa Yamano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Koji Morita (Kyushu Univ.)
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