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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.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NNPD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|4:20–5:45PM EST |Columbia 9
Session Chair:
Stefani Buster
Alternate Chair:
Miltiadis Alamaniotis
Session Organizer:
Student Assistant:
Amanda Bachmann
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Impact of Potential Source Term Updates in DTRA's HPAC
4:25–4:45PM EST
Joshua Molgaard (Defense Threat Reduction Agency), Tyler Dant (Applied Research Assoc.)
Paper
Geometry Effects in the Transport Calculations of the Multiplicity Moments
4:45–5:05PM EST
Victor Dykin (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), Imre Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
A Novel Nuclear Material Control Technique for Pebble Fueled Reactors
5:05–5:25PM EST
Sunil S. Chirayath (Texas A&M Univ.), Claudio A. Gariazzo (ANL), Raffaella Righetti (Texas A&M Univ.), Mohammad Naraghi (Texas A&M Univ.)
An Explainable Artificial Intelligence Approach using a Hopfield Network in Nuclear Security Applications
5:25–5:45PM EST
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Optimal Sensor Placement with Using Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Mutual Information
5:45–6:05PM EST
Siyao Gu (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio), Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio)
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