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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|Methods
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Franciscan C
Session Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. of Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Carlo Fiorina (Texas A&M Uni)
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State Estimation and Control in Digital Twins for TRIGA Research Reactors
10:15–10:35AM PDT
John Ross (Univ. Texas, Austin), Ben Collins (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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Demonstration of Microreactor Reactivity Control with Reinforcement Learning
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan), Dean Price (Univ. Michigan), Kamal Abdulraheem (Univ. Michigan), Moutaz Elias (Lam Research)
Machine Learning Prediction of Pebble History in Pebble Bed Reactors
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Ian Kolaja (Univ. California, Berkeley), Tatiana Siaraferas (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yves Robert (Univ. California, Berkeley), Jaewon Lee (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
C3-LPO: A Machine Learning Based Surrogate Model for Reactor Design Evaluation and Optimization
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Kingsley Ogujiuba (NCSU), Jake Mikouchi-Lopez (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Jason Hou (NCSU)
Generative AI Tools in the Nuclear Engineering Community: A Survey-Based Evaluation of the Current Adoption and Impacts
11:35–11:55AM PDT
Oskari Pakari (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU)
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