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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|Water-Cooled Reactor Operations and Accident Analysis
Monday, August 21, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Columbia 3/4
Session Chair:
Caleb Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Alternate Chair:
Hyun Sik Park
Session Organizer:
Cesare Frepoli
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BWRX-300 Chimney Evaluations (1): Conceptual Design of the Chimney
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Charles Heck (Global Nuclear Fuel), Scott Bowman (Global Nuclear Fuel), Kazuaki Kito (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
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Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — presentation paper #40308
BWRX-300 SMR Chimney Evaluations (2): Strategy for Qualifying TRACG Evaluations of Chimney Void Fractions
1:50–2:10PM EDT
A. Povolny (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), K. Katono (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), C. Heck (Global Nuclear Fuel), Z. Zhang (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
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BWRX-300 SMR Chimney Evaluations (3): HUSTLE Testing in Large Diameter Chimney at Nominal Pressure and Temperature
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Kenichi Katono (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Antonin Povolny (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Hajime Furuichi (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kiyoshi Fujimoto (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kenichi Yasuda (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kazuaki Kito (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
BWRX-300 SMR Chimney Evaluations (4): Measurement of Void Fraction and Velocity Distributions in Large Diameter Chimney at Nominal Pressure and Temperature Using Double-Plane Wire-Mesh Sensor
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Hajime Furuichi (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Antonin Povolny (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kenichi Katono (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kenichi Yasuda (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy), Kazuaki Kito (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
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Feasibility Analysis of Flooding Safety System of i-SMR with MELCOR Code
2:50–3:10PM EDT
Chang Hyun Song (Hanyang Univ.), Jae Hyung Park (Hanyang Univ.), Sung Joong Kim (Hanyang Univ.)
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