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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.
Panel and Technical Session|Criticality Safety
Saturday, April 15, 2023|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Student Union 362C
Session Chair:
Katy Worrell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Matthew McMillan (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Nuclear Criticality Safety Division.
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Design of a Subcritical Test Assembly at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1:35–1:55PM EDT
Edward G. Fejedelem (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Carson Sain (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Chilson Whittum (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Katy Worrell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Alexander Lang (ORNL), Mathieu Dupont (ORNL), Douglas G. Bowen (ORNL)
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Consistency-Based Benchmark Rejection Used for Nuclear Criticality Safety Analysis Applications
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Jeongwon Seo (Purdue), Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue)
Heavy Water Experiment with Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly (ISSA)
2:15–2:35PM EDT
Alessandra H. Totaro Villar (Univ. California, Berkeley), Speero M. Tannous (Univ. California, Berkeley), Émile Gateau (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Burnable Poison Loading Optimization
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Vitaliy Mykhnyak (Penn State), Devin J. Ortiz (Penn State), Andrew Broesder (Penn State)
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