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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
Wednesday, July 24, 2024|10:15AM–12:05PM CDT|Senate A/B
Session Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
Alternate Chair:
Lane Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Jan W. Coenen
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Hydrogen Transport through the Liquid-Vapor Interface Implemented in MELCOR-TMAP Code for Fusion Systems Modeling and Analysis
10:15–10:40AM CDT
Matthew D. Eklund (INL), Adriaan A. Riet (INL), Thomas F. Fuerst (INL), Chase N. Taylor (INL), Hanns Gietl (INL), Masashi Shimada (INL)
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Increasing Technology Readiness of Systems in the Fuel Cycle Through R&D and SPARC Design
10:40–11:05AM CDT
H.K. Mutha (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), P. Byrne (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), C. Chrobak (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), E. Dombrowski (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), J. Carmichael (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), A. Hollingsworth (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), M. Fillion (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), A.Q. Kuang (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), S. Knipe (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), S.R. Mahmud (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), B. Post (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), K. Ryan (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), R. Sweeney (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), R. Shah (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), C.R. Shmayda (Torion Plasma Corp.), W.T. Shmayda (Tritium Solutions), C. Tesluk (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), F. Ravelli (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Tritium Extraction from FLiBe using a Permeation Against Vacuum (PAV): Impact of Surface Potentials, Currents, and Coupling PAV to Sacrificial Anodes
11:05–11:25AM CDT
Luke Olson (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions), Chris Dandeneau (SRNL), Adam Gootgeld (SRNL), Brenda Garcia-Diaz (SRNL), George Larsen (SRNL)
The Role of Helium in Plasma-Driven Permeation of Hydrogen through Palladium and its Alloys
11:25–11:45AM CDT
Chao Li (Colorado School of Mines), Thomas F. Fuerst (INL), J. Douglas Way (Colorado School of Mines), Colin A. Wolden (Colorado School of Mines)
Flowing Lead-Lithium Eutectic Tritium Extraction Test Loop Design: Considerations for Deployment and Applications for Advancement of Fusion Fuel Cycle Technologies
11:45AM–12:05PM CDT
N. Tedford (Hatch), V. Pupkevich (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), T. Whitehorne (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), D. Ryland (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), S. Dalvi (Hatch), S. Sokhanvaran (Hatch), M. Lindstrom-Parkins (Hatch), A. Bigelow (Hatch), Z. Elman (Hatch)
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