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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|Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification
Monday, April 28, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Horace Tabor
Session Chair:
Yousry Azmy (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Ben Murphy (Univ. New Mexico)
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Fully Coupled Adjoint-Based Perturbation Theory for dynAmIcs and heat traNsfer (CAPTAIN) Multiphysics for Nuclear Transients
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Alexis Maldonado (Univ. New Mexico), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico)
Paper
Uncertainty Quantification of Bifurcations in the Rayleigh-Benard Problem for Molten Salts
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Fadel M. Nasr (NCSU), Yousry Azmy (NCSU)
Uncertainty Quantification of Transients with Derived Kinetic Data
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Maximiliano Velasco (NCSU), Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
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