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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|Reactor Design and Analysis
Monday, April 22, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan A
Session Chair:
Ben Lindley
Alternate Chair:
Yves Robert (ORNL)
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Voronoï Mesh for a Thermally Coupled Model of Pebble Bed Reactor
1:30–1:50PM PDT
Ludovic Jantzen (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yves Robert (ORNL), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Paper
Deterministic High-Fidelity Neutronics Simulation of Pebble Bed Reactors with Pebble Tracking Transport
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Liam Carlson (TAMU), Jean Ragusa (TAMU), Paolo Balestra (INL), Yaqi Wang (INL)
Sensitivity of Thermo-Physical Salt Property Changes on Reactor Equilibrium for Salt-Cooled Pebble Bed Reactors
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Ludovic Jantzen (Univ. California, Berkeley), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Impact of Cooldown on Pebble Fuel Burnup Prediction Using Machine Learning
2:30–2:50PM PDT
Jason Hou (NCSU), Nick Rollins (NCSU)
Assessment of Worth of Telescopic Control Rods in a Pebble Bed Reactor Model
2:50–3:10PM PDT
Ethan P. Fowler (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Gabriel Paramucchio (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Adrien Couet (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Peter Wilkinson (Unaffiliated), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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