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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 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Comparison of Exponential Smoothing and GRU-Based Monitoring of Liquid Sodium Heater Zones
10:00–10:20AM EST
Maria Pantopoulou (Purdue), Derek Kultgen (ANL), Lefteri Tsoukalas (Purdue), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
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Structural Deformation in Fluid-Structure Interaction for Nuclear Systems
10:20–10:40AM EST
Dinesh Kumar (Univ. Bristol), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Syed Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Operation Optimization Framework for Advanced Reactors Using a Dynamic Bayesian Network Based Digital Twin
10:40–11:00AM EST
Andy Rivas (NCSU), G.K. Delipei (NCSU), Jason Hou (NCSU)
Estimation of Remaining Useful Life of Nuclear Power Plant Assets for Digital Twin Framework Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network
11:00–11:20AM EST
Md Nazmus Sakib (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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