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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|New and Advanced Reactors
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Columbia 2
Session Chair:
Mauricio Tano (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Lambert Fick (Kairos Power)
Session Organizer:
Rui Hu
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Development and First Application of a Simplified Tool for the Design of a Molten Salt Reactor
1:30–1:50PM EDT
E. Martin Lopez (CEA), L. Matteo (CEA), V. Pascal (CEA), M. Mascaron (CEA), A. Petrilli (CEA)
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Transient Modeling and Simulation of a Generic Stable Salt Reactor
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Thanh Hua (ANL), Yan Cao (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Andrew Ballard (Moltex Energy Canada), David Catalan (Moltex Energy Canada)
Benchmarking MSRE Reactivity Insertion Tests Using SPECTRA and SAM
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Marek Stempniewicz (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), Ferry Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), Ting Fei (ANL), Thanh Hua (ANL), Bo Feng (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
Simulations to Understand Thermal Performance of Helically Rifled Heat Transfer Enhancements for Molten Salts
2:30–2:50PM EDT
James R. Vulcanoff (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Ryan P. McGuire (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Implementation of a Gas Transport Model in SAM for Modeling Molten Salt Reactors
2:50–3:10PM EDT
Robert Salko (ORNL), Travis Mui (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL)
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