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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS Winter Conference: DOE, NRC leaders stress need for speedier nuclear approval
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Chris Wright
During speeches at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference & Expo, happening this week in Washington, D.C., Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair David Wright both promised that the Trump administration will speed up nuclear reviews so the U.S. can maintain leadership in nuclear energy.
The DOE’s Wright took a stab at the NRC’s traditionally slow bureaucratic processes in approving primarily large light water reactors in the past, saying that the agency needs to speed up to meet the greater demand for new small modular reactors.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Banyan C
Session Chair:
Kyle C. Hartig
Alternate Chair:
Travis W. Knight
Session Organizer:
Lisa M. Marshall
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Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Relationship Development Workshop
3:15–3:35PM PDT
J. Keith Jewell (INL), Jeffery Giglio (INL), Brenden Heidrich (INL)
Paper
Recent Case Study on NRC Rulemaking on Right-Sizing SMR Emergency-Zones
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical), Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical)
We get by with a Little Help from our Friends -- A Case Study of how to Bring on 350+ Coworkers in a Year
3:55–4:05PM PDT
Adam Peck (Pacific Gas and Electric Co.), Justin Rogers (Pacific Gas and Electric Co.)
Importance of Hands-On Training Within the Nuclear Industry
4:05–4:15PM PDT
Kelsey Amundson (LANL)
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