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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 RPD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EST|Cabinet
Session Chair:
Abdalla Abou-Jaoude
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
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Spatially Resolved Thermochemistry with Chemical Species Tracking in Molten Salt Reactors
8:00–8:20AM EST
Samuel A. Walker (INL), Parikshit Bajpai (INL), Daniel Schwen (INL), Mauricio Tano (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL)
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CNRS Molten Salt Reactor Benchmark Analysis Using Griffin-Pronghorn Coupled Multi-Physics Code System
8:20–8:40AM EST
Namjae Choi (INL), Mustafa Jaradat (INL), Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
SAM Model of the HTTF in the Virtual Test Bed
8:40–9:00AM EST
Thanh Hua (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
Natural Convection CFD Modeling of a Microreactor Air Jacket
9:00–9:20AM EST
Anshuman Chaube (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Dillon Shaver (ANL), Caleb Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Recent and Upcoming Microreactor Models Submission in the VTB
9:20–9:40AM EST
Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Ahmed Abdelhameed (ANL), Nick Fassino (ANL), Yan Cao (ANL), Kun Mo (ANL), Lander Ibarra (ANL), Daniel Nunez (ANL), Emily Shemon (ANL)
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