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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
Wednesday, November 10, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
Michael Muhlheim (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Alex Huning (ORNL)
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Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Practical Insights for Assessing Multi-Unit Risk to Support Risk-Informed Decision-Making
12:40–1:10PM EST
Fernando Ferrante (EPRI), Andrea Maioli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Ken Kiper (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Carrol Trull (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Adriana A. Sivori (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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Analysis of Common Cause Failures With Effects of Degradation and Maintenance
1:10–1:40PM EST
Taotao Zhou (Univ. of Maryland), Mohammad Modarres (Univ. of Maryland), Enrique López Droguett (Univ. of Chile)
PSA-Based Seismic Margin Assessment for a New Reactor Design
1:40–2:10PM EST
Manuel Pellissetti (Framatome), Gerben Dirksen (Framatome), Artem Shevchenko (Framatome), Hugo Jadot (EDF), Romain Tricard (EDVANCE)
Shutdown Level 2 PSA Methodology for a Small Modular Reactor
2:10–2:40PM EST
Hugo da Costa Romberg Júnior (Univ. of São Paulo), Nathália Nunes Araújo (Univ. of São Paulo), Maritza Rodriguez Gual (Univ. of São Paulo), Marcos Coelho Maturana (Univ. of São Paulo), Marcelo Ramos Martins (Univ. of São Paulo)
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