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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 RPD|Cosponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Alisha Kasam-Griffith (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Florent Heidet
Staff Producer:
Jay Bogardus (American Nuclear Society)
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Investigation of Fuel Assembly Homogenization Effect and Improvement for VTR
Tingzhou Fei (Argonne National Laboratory), Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Zhiwen Xu (TerraPower), Zhaopeng Zhong (Argonne National Laboratory)
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CFD Analysis of the Effect of Edge Fillets on Pressure Drop for a Pipe-to-Annulus Geometry
Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Su-Jong Yoon (Idaho National Laboratory), Dillon R. Shaver (Argonne National Laboratory)
OpenMC-Based Generation of Multigroup Cross-Sections for Analysis of the Versatile Test Reactor
Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Adam G. Nelson (Argonne National Laboratory), Alisha A. Kasam-Griffith (Argonne National Laboratory)
Design and Demonstration of a Rabbit Experiment System for the Versatile Test Reactor
Abdullah Weiss (Texas A&M University), Jason Hearne (Texas A&M University), David W. Wootan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University), Delia Perez-Nunez (Texas A&M University), Luis H. Ortega (Texas A&M University), Karen V. Kirkland (Texas A&M University), Mark L. Kimber (Texas A&M University), Sean M. McDeavitt (Texas A&M University)
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