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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Sellafield awards $3.86B in infrastructure contracts to three companies
Sellafield Ltd., the site license company overseeing the decommissioning of the U.K.’s Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England, announced the award of £2.9 billion (about $3.86 billion) in infrastructure support contracts to the companies of Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain, and HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by NISD
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Kevin R. O'Kula
Session Organizer:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
In 2018 and 2021, fuel failure events occurred in research reactors at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) and NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) Reactor, respectively. While neither event resulted in significant radiological exposure, each of the affected reactor facilities paused operations to review fuel fabrication, training, operations, quality assurance, conduct causal analyses and other activities before returning to normal operations. An earlier panel session at the 2021 ANS Winter Meeting provided an update on where the two reactor facilities stood in their recovery efforts. This session will be a panel with key representatives from ORNL, NIST, and NRC staff that will discuss the events, the associated causal analyses, corrective actions, and lessons learned since the two events before recovery of full operations in both HFIR and NCNR.
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