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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.
Educational Session|Panel|Sponsored by Supply Chain Challenges & Opportunities
Tuesday, August 6, 2024|1:30–3:00PM EDT|Banyan 3
Experienced nuclear supplier resources that are certified is a limited market, and each utility and site compete for similar resources at the same time due to spring and fall outage schedules. Even on the same site, major projects can compete with routine maintenance and RP activities for the same skill set. Combined with often projects choose the best athlete for the different aspects of a project. What are utilities and suppliers doing to collaborate and work together to minimize the cost and risk when competing for the same resources and accomplish the work? Agreements sharing risk? Agreements to move resources to other companies? Agreements with bundling subcontractors under one agreement?
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