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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, July 24, 2024|8:00–9:50AM CDT|Senate A/B
Session Chair:
Diana Grandas
Alternate Chair:
Paul P. Wilson
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Investigation of Liquid Solution Centrifugation as a Potential Lithium Isotope Separation Method
8:00–8:25AM CDT
Norbert K. Wegrzynowski (Univ. Bristol), Alicja Szczepanska (Univ. Bristol), Yannick Verbelen (Univ. Bristol), Rob Havell (Univ. Bristol), Hugo Dominguez-Andrade (Univ. Bristol), Mahmoud Bakr (Univ. Bristol), Tom Mooney (Univ. Bristol), Alex Little (Univ. Bristol), Tomas Martin (Univ. Bristol), Jamie Townes (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), Tom Scott (Univ. Bristol)
Paper
Power Conversion System Indirectly Coupled with Primary Heat Transfer System in EU DEMO Water Cooled Lithium Lead Pulsating Balance of Plant.
8:25–8:45AM CDT
A. Burlando (Università degli Studi di Genova), L. Barucca (Ansaldo Nuclare), F. Giannetti (Sapienza Univ. Roma), C. Ciurluini (Sapienza Univ. Roma), F. Colliva (Sapienza Univ. Roma), G. Mongiardini (Sapienza Univ. Roma), A. Tincani (ENEA), C. Bima (Ansaldo Energia), A. Traverso (Università degli studi di Genova)
Building a Body of Knowledge to Inform a Technology-Agnostic Iterative Safety Assessment Methodology for Fusion Facilities
8:45–9:05AM CDT
Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Diana Grandas (EPRI), Andrew Sowder (EPRI), Brennan Ferrington (Vanderbilt Univ.), George Flanagan (ORNL Retired)
Design and Commissioning of High-Pressure Helium Flow Visualization Apparatus for Blanket Cooling Studies
9:05–9:25AM CDT
Cody S. Wiggins (ORNL), Yuqiao Fan (ORNL), Chris Crawford (ORNL), Chase Joslin (ORNL)
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