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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NRC cancels advanced reactor meeting due to government shutdown
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it is cancelling an upcoming advanced reactor stakeholder meeting, originally scheduled for November 19, due to the government shutdown and the limitations on staffing at the agency.
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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