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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 MSTD
Monday, November 13, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Jefferson West
Session Chair:
Stephen T. Lam
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Wear and Friction of Nuclear Graphite in FLiBe
3:15–3:35PM EST
L. Vergari (Univ. California, Berkeley), J. Xu (Univ. California, Berkeley), R. O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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A Comparison of Mass Loss Analyses for Molten Salt Corrosion
3:35–3:55PM EST
Ryan D. Hayes (Univ. California, Berkeley), Sean H. Mills (Univ. California, Berkeley), Gabriel Meric de Bellefon (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Dan Thoma (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Andrew Minor (Univ. California, Berkeley), Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Drivers and Limiting Steps for Corrosion in Molten Salt Loops
3:55–4:15PM EST
Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Presented by Randall Chiu (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Development of Enriched Uranium-Bearing Molten Salt Irradiation Capability
4:15–4:35PM EST
Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Stephen Warmann (INL), Calvin Downey (INL), Morgan Kropp (INL), Greg Core (INL), Chuting Tsai (INL), William Phillips (INL)
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