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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
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
Kris Kuhlman (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Autumn Taylor (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Brine Availability Test in Salt 2.0
3:15–3:35PM MST
Philip Stauffer (LANL), Kristopher Kuhlman (Sandia), Jonny Rutqvist (LBNL), Hakim Boukhalfa (LANL), Michelle Bourret (LANL), Charles Coens (Sandia), Eric Guiltinan (LANL), Courtney Herrick (Sandia), Rick Jayne (Sandia), Melissa Mills (LANL), Martin Nemer (Sandia), Shawn Otto (LANL), Thom Rahn (LANL), Yuxin Wu (LBNL)
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Investigating the Coupled Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical Behavior of Salt for Nuclear Waste Disposal Through Resistivity Monitoring and Laboratory Experiments
3:35–3:55PM MST
Sebastian Uhlemann (LBNL), Christine Downs (Sandia), Jiannan Wang (LBNL), Shawn Otto (LANL), Kristopher Kuhlmann (Sandia), Yuxin Wu (LBNL)
Using Stable Isotopes in Water to Trace Brine Mobilization at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
3:55–4:15PM MST
Daniel L. Eldridge (LANL), Hayden B.D. Miller (LANL), Thom Rahn (LANL), Eric J. Guiltinan (LANL), Shawn Otto (LANL), Kristopher Kuhlman (Sandia), Philip H. Stauffer (LANL)
Brine Availability Test in Salt: Collaborative Modeling Within DECOVALEX
4:15–4:35PM MST
Eric Guiltinan (LANL), Jerone Bartol (Centrale Organisatie Voor Radioactief Afval), Steven Benbow (Quintessa), Michelle Bourret (LANL), Oliver Czaikowski (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit), Kyra Jantschik (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit), Rick Jayne (Sandia), Kristopher Kuhlman (Sandia), Simon Norris (Nuclear Waste Services), Jonny Rutqvist (LBNL), Hua Shao (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe), Hafssa Tounsi (LBNL), Claire Watson (Quintessa), Philip Stauffer (LANL)
Analyzing Field Data from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS): A High-Resolution 3D Numerical Comparison Between Voronoi and Cartesian Meshing
4:35–4:55PM MST
Richard S. Jayne (Sandia), Kristopher L. Kuhlman (Sandia)
Near-Field Coupled Processes in Salt-Based Disposal Facilities -- Learning from Modelling in DECOVALEX 2023
4:55–5:15PM MST
Steven Benbow (Quintessa), Claire Watson (Quintessa), Alex Bond (Quintessa), Simon Norris (Nuclear Waste Services), Sam Parsons (Nuclear Waste Services)
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