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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|Sponsored by ETWDD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Canaveral 1
Session Chair:
Aaron Gravelle
Alternate Chair:
Tyler Newitt
Session Organizer:
Andrew E. Thomas (INL)
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Expanding the Causal Logic Foundations of Human Reliability Analysis: Current Project Status
10:00–10:20AM EST
Camille S. Levine (Univ. Maryland), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. Maryland)
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Evaluation of how Nuclear Researchers and Designers Consider Economics and Reactor Design
10:20–10:40AM EST
Rowan M. Marchie (Univ. Michigan), Sydney Sielaff (Univ. Michigan), Aditi Verma (Univ. Michigan)
Numerical Modeling and Pretest Seismic Analysis of Spent Nuclear Fuel Horizontal Storage Module Mockup
10:40–11:00AM EST
Nataliia Igrashkina (Univ. Nevada, Reno), Fady Elshazly (Univ. Nevada, Reno), Mohamed A. Moustafa (Univ. Nevada, Reno), Elnaz Seylabi (Univ. Nevada, Reno)
Pre Shake Table Testing Seismic Response Analysis of Spent Fuel Dry Storage Cask Systems
11:00–11:20AM EST
Fady A. Elshazly (Univ. Nevada, Reno), Elnaz Seylabi (Univ. Nevada, Reno), David McCallen (Berkeley Lab), Mohamed Moustafa (Univ. Nevada, Reno)
Seismic Isolation of Spent Fuel Dry Storage Casks Using Meta-Foundations
11:20–11:40AM EST
Fady A. Elshazly (Univ. Nevada, Reno), Elnaz Seylabi (Univ. Nevada, Reno)
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