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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Amazon provides update on its Washington project with X-energy
A year ago this month, Amazon led a $500 million investment in X-energy, alongside Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the University of Michigan, and other investors. In addition to that financing, Amazon pledged to support the development of an initial four-unit, 320-MW project with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
Plutonium Futures - The Science 2024
Topic title: First-principles theory for plutonium
Talk title: Plutonium explained within a 5f-electron band picture
Bio: Student of Prof. Börje Johansson in Uppsala (alpha-Ce/gamma-Ce transition fame). Ph.D. 1994. LLNL 1994-present. APS Fellow 2008. Lead author on chapters for two plutonium books. First to acknowledge the importance of magnetism in plutonium (2001). H-index 51, ~8000 citations, most on the basis of plutonium and actinide theory publications.
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