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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 HFICD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 2
Session Chair:
Nancy J. Lybeck
Alternate Chair:
Vivek Agarwal
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Analog Meter Obsolescence is Causing Problems for Aging Nuclear Power Plants
1:00–1:20PM MST
Otto P. Fest (OTEK Corp.)
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Highly Integrated Protection System (HIPS)
1:20–1:40PM MST
Tighe Smith (Paragon Energy Solutions)
Evaluation of Thermocouples Embedded Using Additive Manufacturing
1:40–2:00PM MST
Codi Ferree (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Amy Godfrey (ORNL), Holden Hyer (ORNL), Christian Petrie (ORNL)
Presented by Adam Deatherage (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
NBSR Radiation Monitoring System Upgrade
2:00–2:20PM MST
James Whipple (Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology), Dagistan Sahin (Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology)
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