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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
Friday, December 3, 2021|8:00–9:45AM EST |Georgetown West
Session Chairs:
Leonel E. Lagos
Sungmoon Joo
Brian O'Neil (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Young Soo Park
Student Assistant:
Tri Nguyen
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Multi-Agent-Based Wall-Climbing Robot System for Safety Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant
8:05–8:25AM EST
Young-woon Song (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Jungill Kang (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Taesik Kim (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Son-Cheol Yu (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology)
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Development of an In-Water Light-Duty Robot for Use in the Decommissioning of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants
8:25–8:45AM EST
Shinji Kawatsuma (National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College), Shigekazu Suzuki (National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College)
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MATLAB-Based 3D Virtual Manipulator Simulator for Remote Dismantling of Nuclear Reactor
8:45–9:05AM EST
Hamza Khan (Pusan National Univ.), Jin Won Lee (Pusan National Univ.), Min Cheol Lee (Pusan National Univ.), Seokyoung Ahn (Pusan National Univ.), Suh Jeong (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials), Dae-Won Cho (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials)
Preliminary Study on Point Cloud-Based Object Pose Estimation in Robotic Nuclear Decommissioning Applications
9:05–9:25AM EST
Sungmoon Joo (KAERI), Hogeon Seo (KAERI)
A Cooperative Unmanned Disaster Responding System at KAERI
9:25–9:45AM EST
Dongseok Ryu (KAERI), Youngsoo Choi (KAERI)
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