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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Jefferson West
Session Chair:
Annabelle Le Coq
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Conceptual Neutronics Scoping for Ramp Testing in the Advanced Test Reactor
1:00–1:20PM EST
Travis Labossiere-Hickman (INL), Nicolas Woolstenhulme (INL), Brian Durtschi (INL), David Kamerman (INL)
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Feasibility of Power Ramp Testing in the Advanced Test Reactor
1:20–1:40PM EST
Michael J. Worrall (INL), Nate S. Oldham (INL), Kendell R. Horman (INL)
Towards High-Throughput Alloy Development for Nuclear Reactor Applications
1:40–2:00PM EST
Jonathan Gigax (LANL), Hyosim Kim (LANL), Matthew Chancey (LANL), Jon Kevin Baldwin (LANL)
Predicting the Transmutation of Fuel Taggants
2:00–2:20PM EST
Elijah C. Lutz (Sandia), Jeremy M. Osborn (Sandia)
Linear and Non-linear Optical Characterization of Glass and Sapphire for Optical Instrumentation of Advanced Fission Reactors
2:20–2:40PM EST
Bryan Morgan (Univ. Michigan), Matthew Van Zile (Ohio State), Christian Petrie (ORNL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Milos Burger (Univ. Michigan), Igor Jovanovic (Univ. Michigan)
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