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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.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Mesquite
Session Chair:
Tejaswini Vaidya (Univ. Idaho)
Alternate Chair:
Brendan Nation (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Brady D. Hanson
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Experimental Investigation of Aerosol Release from Spent Nuclear Fuel Fractures
1:00–1:20PM MST
Yadukrishnan Sasikumar (ORNL), Rose A. Montgomery (ORNL), Tamara J. Keever (ORNL)
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The Hanford Lead Canister Collaboration
1:20–1:40PM MST
Nicholas Klymyshyn (PNNL), Gary Cannell (Fluor Corp.), Jonathan Tatman (EPRI)
Accelerated Corrosion Testing of Cold Spray Coatings on 304L in Chloride Environments
1:40–2:00PM MST
Erin Karasz (Sandia ), Timothy D. Montoya (Sandia), Jason M. Taylor (Sandia), Kenneth A. Ross (PNNL), Rebecca F. Schaller (Sandia )
Considerations in the Drying of Spent Nuclear Fuel for Extended Storage
2:00–2:20PM MST
Robert Sindelar (SRNL), Rebecca Smith (INL), Anna d'Entremont (SRNL), Christoph Rirschl (GNS Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service), Keith Waldrop (EPRI), Darrell Dunn (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Robert Einziger (Retired)
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