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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.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Longboat 1
Session Chairs:
Luis Ocampo Giraldo
Mauritius Hiller (RadCon)
Session Organizer:
Mathieu Dupont
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Radiation Dose Impact of an Overpack Storage Configuration for Plutonium Disposition
1:00–1:20PM EST
R. Blake Wilkerson (ORNL), Douglas E. Peplow (ORNL), Deanna Stimac (SRNL), Arzu Alpan (ORNL), Keith C. Bledsoe (ORNL), Robert E. Grove (ORNL)
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Interpolating Transported Flux Spectra from Monoenergetic Sources
1:20–1:40PM EST
Douglas E. Peplow (ORNL), Mathew W. Swinney (ORNL)
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Nontraditional Sensors for Aqueous Separation Research and Workforce Development
1:40–2:00PM EST
Luis A. Ocampo Giraldo (INL), Edna S. Cardenas (INL), Jay D. Hix (INL), James T. Johnson (INL), Cody M. Walker (INL), Kevin Lyon (INL)
Radiation Hot Spot Seasonal Variation on UF6 Cylinders
2:00–2:20PM EST
Brandon A. Wilson (ORNL), Douglas E. Peplow (ORNL), Keith C. Bledsoe (ORNL), Nathan D. See (ORNL), Ean S. Arnold (PNNL), Staci M. Herman (PNNL), Evan Warzecha (PNNL), Derrick R. Seiner (PNNL), Glenn A. Fugate (ORNL)
Shielding an Infrasound Sensor for INL's Fuel Conditioning Facility
2:20–2:40PM EST
Marcellus Boykin (Georgia Tech), Luis Ocampo Giraldo (INL)
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