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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.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021
Technical Session
Thursday, December 2, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Georgetown West
Session Chair:
John Moon
Alternate Chair:
Adam J. Carroll (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Young Soo Park
Student Assistant:
Jun Jian Su
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Design of a Miniature Rover for the Inspection of High-Level Waste Double-Shell Tanks
10:05–10:25AM EST
Shervin Tashakori (Florida International Univ.), Daniel Martin (Florida International Univ.), Sebastian Story (Florida International Univ.), Mackenson Telusma (Florida International Univ.), Anthony Abrahao (Florida International Univ.), Dwayne McDaniel (Florida International Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida International Univ.)
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Robotic Inspection System Using Guided Wave Technology for Nuclear Waste Storage Tanks
10:25–10:45AM EST
Victoria Wahlen (Southwest Research Institute), Glynn Bartlett (Southwest Research Institute), Adam Cobb (Southwest Research Institute)
Development of a Marsupial Robotic Crawler for the Inspection of High-Level Waste Double-Shell Tank Secondary Liners
10:45–11:05AM EST
Anthony Abrahao (Florida International Univ.), Josue Estrada (Florida International Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida International Univ.), Dwayne McDaniel (Florida International Univ.)
Development of an Omni-Directional Wall Coating Platform Using Thrust-Based Adhesion Mechanism at H-Canyon Exhaust Tunnel
11:05–11:25AM EST
Mackenson Telusma (Florida International Univ.), Jeff Natividad (Florida International Univ.), Dwayne McDaniel (Florida International Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida International Univ.)
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