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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
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|12:30–2:15PM EST |Gunston
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
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Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Student Assistant:
Brison Cowan
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An Investigation of Three-Batch Fuel Management in a Natural Circulation Soluble Boron Free SMR
12:35–12:55PM EST
Steven Wijaya (KAIST), Xuan Ha Nguyen (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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Three-Batch Soluble-Boron-Free ATOM Core Design with Pan-Shape CSBA
12:55–1:15PM EST
Xuan Ha Nguyen (KAIST), Steven Wijaya (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Molten Salt Reactor Kinetics in Zero Power Approximation
1:15–1:35PM EST
Visura Pathirana (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Chelsea Fontaine-Holl (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Independent Assessment of Transformational Challenge Reactor Fuel Lattice
1:35–1:55PM EST
Yeongshin Jeong (MIT), Wei Li (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Alternate Design of the Bottom Reflector of the Transformational Challenge Reactor
1:55–2:15PM EST
A. Talamo (ANL), S.N.P. Vegendla (ANL), A. Bergeron (ANL), F. Heidet (ANL), B. Ade (ORNL), B.R. Betzler (ORNL)
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