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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.
June 12–16, 2016
Nuclear Power: Leading the Supply of Clean, Carbon Free Energy
New Orleans, LA|Hyatt Regency New Orleans
The 2016 ANS Annual Meeting Hotel is the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. All meeting activities, technical sessions and plenary sessions will be held at the hotel (unless otherwise noted). ***Registration is now open!*** Hotel: Hyatt Regency New Orleans 601 Loyola Ave
General Chair:
Donna Jacobs (Chief Operating Officer, Entergy Corporation)
Assistant General Chairs:
Donald R. Hoffman (President/CEO, EXCEL Services Corporation)
John Mahoney (President /COO, High Expectations International, LLC)
Program Chair:
Guillermo (Bill) Daniel DelCul (Distinguished Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Assistant Program Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood (PNNL)
Embedded Topical Meeting
General Chairs:
Heather J. MacLean Chichester (Senior Staff Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory)
Kurt A. Terrani (Staff Scientist-Weinberg Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Program Chairs:
Xianming (David) Bai (Staff Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory)
Yong Yang (Assistant Professor, University of Florida)
Fan-Bill Cheung (Professor, Pennsylvania State University)
Michio Murase (Chief Researcher, Institute of Nuclear Safety System, Inc.)
David Aumiller (Senior Advisor Engineer, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
Seungjin Kim (Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University)
Simon Walker (Professor, Imperial College)
Assistant Program Chairs:
Elia Merzari (Nuclear Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory)
Xiaojing Liu (Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
