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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.
TopFuel 2022 Light Water Reactor Fuel Performance Conference Plenary SPeaker
Ph.D. student
Nuclear Science and Engineering department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assil Halimi is a Ph.D. student in the Nuclear Science and Engineering department at MIT. His research focuses on fuel performance, thermal hydraulics and reactor design and safety, currently he is involved in assessing high burnup fuels for LWRs. He graduated from the University of Lyon, France in Mathematics and Economics 18’ and holds an engineer’s degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Electrical Engineering 20’ from Institut National des Science Appliquées (INSA Lyon) and in Nuclear Engineering 19’ from Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires (INSTN-CEA, Paris-Saclay). Before joining the graduate program at MIT, he worked as a Core Physics Engineer at Engie, the operator of the Belgian nuclear power plants. In the past, he interned at several organizations in Africa, Europe, and the U.S. working on various technology applications such as: electric propulsion (Safran Group), Oil and Gas distribution (Sonatrach Group), turbine maintenance (GE Power) and system-design platforms and education (National Instruments).
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