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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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White House to consolidate data and research under AI-driven Genesis Mission
One of the executive orders issued by President Trump in November —“Launching the Genesis Mission”—focuses on a national effort to accelerate the use of AI in scientific research. The Genesis Mission EO preceded a reorganization of the Department of Energy and further tightens links between science and security under the administration’s quest for “global technology dominance in the development of artificial intelligence.”
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Markets, Financing, and Economics
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm D
Session Chair:
Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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Alternate Chair:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
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Cost Assessment of Small Modular Reactors for Various Technologies in the IAEA Economic Database
1:00–1:20PM PDT
S. Cathalau (Atomic Energy Commission), O. Mignone (Politecnico di Milano), L. Martinez Sancho (Kairos Power), T. Shibata (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), S. Dardour (IAEA)
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Factors for Competitive Decentralized Hydrogen Production with Nuclear Microreactors
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Emile Germonpre (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Jeong Ik Lee (KAIST), John Parsons (MIT), Ruaridh Macdonald (MIT), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT)
Options for Achieving Cost Reduction in Advanced Reactors Through Open Architecture
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Daniel Lamb (Univ. Cambridge), Tony Roulstone (Univ. Cambridge), Ian Prado (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Tracy Becker (Univ. California, Berkeley), Nahuel Guaita (INL), Sunming Qin (INL), Andrew W. Foss (INL), Ian Woodhouse (Terra Praxis), Eric Ingersoll (Terra Praxis)
Design for Cost Methodology Applied to High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors
2:00–2:20PM PDT
L. Venneri (MIT), K. Shirvan (MIT)
Multi-Objective Site Selection for Coal to Nuclear Power Plant Transition
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Omer F. Erdem (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
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