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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
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Banyan B
Session Chair:
L Vergari (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Modeling Detector Response of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Molten Salt Irradiation Flow Loop
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Seth Dayawansa (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin), Charles Forsberg (MIT), David Carpenter (MIT)
Paper
A Hydrodynamic Model for Rotating Cylinder Electrodes in Molten Salts
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Ranon Fuller (Brigham Young Univ.), Devin Rappleye (Brigham Young Univ.)
To Be or Not to Be: Identifying Non-Beryllium-Containing FLiBe Surrogates for Fusion and Fission
1:40–2:00PM PDT
L. Vergari (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Olivia Hunsberger (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), G.S. Rakib (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Resilient Corrosion Barrier Coating to Protect Structural Components in Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Sumit Bhattacharya (ANL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Abdellatif Yacout (ANL)
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