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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 FCWMD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine A
Session Chair:
Christina Leggett
Alternate Chair:
Jenifer Shafer
Session Organizer:
Sven O. Bader
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Reference Shale Host Rock Properties and Chemistries for Deep Borehole Disposal Performance Modeling
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Ethan Bates (Deep Isolation), John Grimsich (Deep Isolation), Stefan Finsterle (Finsterle GeoConsulting), LianGe Zheng (Berkeley Lab), Mikey Hannon (Carbon Solutions), Jesse Sloane (Deep Isolation)
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Advanced Reactor Waste Forms: State of Knowledge and Future Directions
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Jeffrey McLachlan (Berkeley Lab), Rebecca Abergel (Univ. California, Berkeley)
MgO Waste Form Irradiation Damage and Stability
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Eric C. O'Quinn (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), David J. Sprouster (Stony Brook Univ.), Maik K. Lang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jason R. Trelewicz (Stony Brook Univ.)
Probabilistic Digital Twin and Distributed Ledger Technology Based Safeguards Solution for Aqueous Nuclear Reprocessing Facilities
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Scott Evans (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center), John Carbone (GE Aerospace Advanced Research Center), Chris Reynolds (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center)
Economic Model Development for Deep Borehole Repositories
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Matt Waples (Deep Isolation), Vaibhav Sharma (Deep Isolation), Ethan Bates (Deep Isolation), Jesse Sloane (Deep Isolation)
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