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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 RPSD
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Georgetown East
Session Chair:
Jeffrey A. Favorite
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova
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Advanced Variance Reduction Application for Boiling Water Reactor Dose Analysis
10:00–10:20AM EST
Marc Harron (MPR Assoc.), Ryanne A. Kennedy (MPR Assoc.), Andrew Cooper (Silver Fir Software)
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Accuracy of the Standard Deviation Estimated with Correlated Sampling Using Batch Statistics
10:20–10:40AM EST
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL), Michael Squire (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Neutronics Models for Evaluating Shielding in the SPARC Fusion Facility
10:40–11:00AM EST
Joshua T. Jones (MPR Assoc.), James M. Burke (MPR Assoc.), Andrew Cooper (Silver Fir Software), Andrea A. Saltos (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Ryanne Kennedy (MPR Assoc.)
VERA Extensions for Advanced LWR Excore Radiation Transport Applications
11:00–11:20AM EST
Andrew Godfrey (Veracity Nuclear), Benjamin Collins (Veracity Nuclear), Micah Best (TAMU)
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