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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
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|12:30–2:15PM EST |Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Travis W. Knight
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Lisa M. Marshall
Student Assistant:
Michael Seneca
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A Modular Molten Salt Reactor Design for Desalination
12:35–12:55PM EST
J. Sebastian Tchakerian (Texas A&M Univ.), Phillip Olivarez (Texas A&M Univ.), Robert Kollman (Texas A&M Univ.), David Swindall (Texas A&M Univ.), David Nguyen (Texas A&M Univ.)
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Micro-HTGR for Military Installations
12:55–1:15PM EST
Cindy McCabe (Univ. of Florida), Jonathan Arnaud (Univ. of Florida), Cesar Pozas (Univ. of Florida), Steven Lester (Univ. of Florida), Micah Troyer (Univ. of Florida)
Design of a Low Enrichment Uranium Nuclear Reactor to Power a Future Martian Colony
1:15–1:35PM EST
Joffrey Dorville (Colorado School of Mines), Jacob Tellez (Colorado School of Mines), Conner Glatt (Colorado School of Mines), Jeffrey King (Colorado School of Mines)
Production of Carbon-14 Radioisotope Using an Aluminum Nitride Target in HFIR
1:35–1:55PM EST
Christopher Busch (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), Kayla Sims (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), Madison Tippet (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), Austin Welsh (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), Richard Howard (INL)
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