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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DOE seeks proposals for AI data centers at Paducah
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for offer (RFO) seeking proposals from U.S. companies to build and power AI data centers on the DOE’s Paducah Site in Kentucky. Companies are being sought to potentially enter into one or more long-term leasing agreements at the site that would be solely funded by the applicants.
TopFuel 2025: Nuclear Reactor Fuel Performance Conference
President
Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel
Tarik Choho is President of Nuclear Fuel for the Westinghouse Electric Company since July 2022. In this role, he leads the development and delivery of Westinghouse’s comprehensive nuclear fuel portfolio and services for all types of reactors around the globe (PWRs, BWRs, VVERs and AGRs).
He joined Westinghouse as President, Europe, Middle East, and Africa Operating Plant Services in August 2019, bringing more than 25 years of energy industry experience to lead sales as well as products and services delivery for the EMEA core business for nuclear operating plant customers.
Previously, he led AREVA’s sales and business development globally, as well as their EMEA business. Before that, he held several technical and leadership positions within AREVA’s fuel recycling and waste management, nuclear material transportation and storage, fuel engineering and sales, and mining and enrichment businesses.
He then became managing director of OCP Group, a world leader in phosphate-based fertilizers, where he led the company’s commercial, strategy and development of group activities worldwide.
Tarik Choho is a graduate engineer in Process Engineering from the Paris École Polytechnique and in Mechanical Engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA). He holds a master’s degree in Mathematics and Automatics from Université Paris Dauphine as well as an Executive Business Management degree from INSEAD.
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