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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
Monday, April 22, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Franciscan D
Session Chair:
Jeremy Bousquet (GRS)
Alternate Chair:
Emily Shemon (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Mathieu Hursin (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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Impact of the Multiphysics Coupling on the Reactivity Swing and Fuel Depletion of an SFR Phenix Like Subassembly
10:15–10:35AM PDT
V. Viallon (CEA), E.Y. Garcia-Cervantes (CEA), L. Buiron (CEA)
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Investigation of Ring-Heterogeneous Geometry Approximation for Efficient and Practical SFR Analysis
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Namjae Choi (INL), Stefano Terlizzi (INL), Yaqi Wang (INL), Hansol Park (ANL), Changho Lee (ANL), Javier Ortensi (INL)
Modeling and Validation of Axial Thermal Expansion in the ARMI Framework
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Chris Keckler (TerraPower), Anthony L. Alberti (TerraPower)
Modeling of Sodium Fast Reactors Thermal Expansion Reactivity Feedback Using GeN-Foam and Serpent
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Giovanni Nervi (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Mathieu Hursin (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU)
Uniform and Non-Uniform Geometric Deformations in Monte Carlo with Virtual Density Theory
11:35–11:55AM PDT
Anuj Dubey (Univ. Cambridge), Mikolaj Adam Kowalski (Univ. Cambridge), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge)
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