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2021 ANS Virtual Annual Meeting
June 14–16, 2021
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$163 million contract awarded for WIPP ventilation system
Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP), the management and operations contractor for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico, announced that it has awarded a subcontract valued at approximately $163 million to The Industrial Company (TIC) to complete the construction of the transuranic waste repository’s Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS).
Item ID: 700375|ISBN: 978-0-89448-098-0
2013
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The Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS) conference serves as a major communications network and forum for professionals and students working in the area of space nuclear technology. NETS 2013 contains 89 full papers with topics of interest including: current space architectures and missions, present enabling capabilities, near-term nuclear technologies, augmenting nuclear capabilities, and innovative and advanced technologies.
