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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|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Labrid A/B
Session Chair:
Leah Squires (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Harish Reddy Gadey (INL)
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Consideration on Safety Regulation and Technical Standards of Nuclear Fuel Cycles in Korea
10:00–10:20AM EST
Yong Ki Chi (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Daehyeon Kim (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
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The use of the High-Density UN Fuel in Heat-Pipe Microreactors -- The Impacts of 15N Enrichment on 14C Production
10:20–10:40AM EST
Cihang Lu (Brookhaven), Arantxa Cuadra (Brookhaven), Erofili Kardoulaki (LANL)
Estimation of Void Fraction History Using Post-Irradiation Fuel Isotopics
10:40–11:00AM EST
Tarikul Islam (Purdue Univ.), Shiming Yin (Purdue Univ.), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Germina Procop (ORNL), Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.)
Raman Spectroscopic Characterization of Tributyl/Dibutyl Phosphate Systems Toward Monitoring of Degradation in Solvent Extraction
11:00–11:20AM EST
Justin Cooper (INL), Jessica Meires (INL), Mathew Snow (INL)
Transmutation of Tc-99 and I-129 in the Ex-Core Region of a PWR
11:20–11:40AM EST
Stephen Pucci (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jonathan Wing (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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