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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.
20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20)
With more than 30 years of experience in both academia and industrial research, Dr. Yang is a recognized expert in reactor thermal-hydraulics and nuclear safety, advanced fuel design and qualification, rod bundle CHF and multiphase flow measurements, subchannel analysis, CFD simulation, acoustic wave propagation, online Real-Time Transient Modeling (RTTM), and leak detection in multiphase flow pipelines. Dr. Yang began serving as Director at Columbia University’s Heat Transfer Research Facility (CU-HTRF) from 1993 to 2002. He served as senior exclusive advisor for Westinghouse/ABB/Toshiba group from 2002 to 2012. From 2012 to 2017, Dr. Yang was appointed as a professor and the Dean of the School of Nuclear Science and Technology at Xian Jiaotong University (XJTU) in China. Dr. Yang also served as the Chief Scientist of CGN, China (2012 to 2018). During his professional career he has provided technical advice to various industrial, government, and academic institutions, including Aramco (Saudi), CNNC, CNPC, Ecopetrol, INER (Taiwan), KNFC (Korea), Kurchatov Institute (Russia), Mitsubishi (Japan), NPIC (China), Petrobras (Brazil), Shell (Nigeria), SINOPEC, Taiwan Power, USDOE, Westinghouse. He is the Chief Scientist and Co-Founder (2019) of Delta Energy Group in New York (DEGNY) and Qingdao (DEQD). He also serves as the director of DEQD Institute for Advanced Research in Multiphase Flow and Energy Transfer (DiAME). With over 300 publications and patents, Dr. Yang has served as the Chief Guest Editor for NED, NSE, NT, STNI, and Kerntechnik, and has been serving in the Editorial Board of NED since 2015. As the TPC Chair, Dr. Yang successfully organized the 1st and 2nd International Seminar on Subchannel Analysis-CHF and CFD (ISACC) in 2013 and 2015 respectively. In 2018, as the TPC Co-Chair, he helped to expand ISACC to IS-ReCTHA to include various topics on reactor core thermalhydraulics. In 2017, as TPC Chair, Dr. Yang successfully organized NURETH-17 with over 800 papers and 1,000 participants. Dr. Yang also organized/co-organized over 30 other international conferences and workshops, and he was the invited keynote speaker for several international conferences. In 2022, he was the General Co-Chair of NUTHOS-13 and Steer Committee Co-Chair for NURETH-19. Currently, he also serves as the General Co-Chair for three different international conferences: NURETH-20 (2023, Washington DC), NUTHOS-14 (2024, Vancouver), and ATH-2024 (Orlando, FL).
Dr. Yang was awarded NURETH Fellow (2019), the Excellent in Review Award (2021), and the highest technical achievement award from ANS THD, TAA (2022). He is the current Chair of ANS-THD (2022-2023).
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