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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Researchers use one-of-a-kind expertise and capabilities to test fuels of tomorrow
At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Technical Session|FCWMD
Tuesday, October 7, 2025|3:15–4:55PM CDT|Salon A
Session Chair:
Shinichiro Yamashita
Co-Chair:
Nico Vollmer
Session Organizer:
Peter R. Diller
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GNF4 BWR Fuel Design
3:15–3:40PM CDT
Weston Cundiff (Global Nuclear Fuel), Christopher Sedota (Global Nuclear Fuel), Jason Ingraham (Global Nuclear Fuel)
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Framatome VVER-440 and VVER-1000 Fuel Assembly Developments: Project Targets and Outline of Development Methodology
3:40–4:05PM CDT
Pascal Blanc (Framatome), Guy Gentet (Framatome SAS), Dounia Lhachemi (Framatome SAS), Marco Messingschlager (Framatome)
Extended Fuel Cycle Sensitivity Studies of the GE BWRX-300 Design
4:05–4:30PM CDT
John Monaghan (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Framatome Fuel Portfolio for Light Water based SMRs
4:30–4:55PM CDT
Alice Dufresne (Framatome SAS), David Breeding (Framatome), Elisa Calvo Tone (Framatome)
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