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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DOE awards $2.7B for HALEU and LEU enrichment
Yesterday, the Department of Energy announced that three enrichment services companies have been awarded task orders worth $900 million each. Those task orders were given to American Centrifuge Operating (a Centrus Energy subsidiary) and General Matter, both of which will develop domestic HALEU enrichment capacity, along with Orano Federal Services, which will build domestic LEU enrichment capacity.
The DOE also announced that it has awarded Global Laser Enrichment an additional $28 million to continue advancing next generation enrichment technology.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Physics Integration
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST|3
Session Chair:
Bob Salko (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Yunlin Xu (Purdue)
Track Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Avery Grieve (Univ. of Michigan)
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Motivation and Computational Challenges for Reactivity Insertion Accidents with VERA-CS
Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan), Aaron J. Wysocki (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Validation of VERA-CS with SPERT
Thomas J. Downar (University of Michigan), Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan), Yunlin Xu (Purdue University), Qicang Shen (University of Michigan)
Improvement of CTF for RIA Analysis
Aaron J. Wysocki (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jianwei Hu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Robert K. Salko (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan)
Multi-level Predictor-Corrector Method for 3D Whole Core Transport Transient Analysis
Yunlin Xu (Purdue University), Qicang Shen (University of Michigan), Brendan M. Kochunas (Univ of Michigan)
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