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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Getting back to yes: A local perspective on decommissioning, restart, and responsibility
For 45 years, Duane Arnold Energy Center operated in Linn County, Ia., near the town of Palo and just northwest of Cedar Rapids. The facility, owned by NextEra Energy, was the only nuclear power plant in the state.
In August 2020, a historic derecho swept across eastern Iowa with winds approaching 140 miles per hour. Damage to the plant’s cooling towers accelerated a shutdown that had already been planned, and the facility entered decommissioning soon after, with its fuel removed in October of that year. Iowa’s only nuclear plant had gone off line.
Today the national energy landscape looks very different than it did just six short years ago. Electricity demand is rising rapidly as data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and electrification expand across the country. Reliable, carbon-free baseload power has become increasingly valuable. In that context, Linn County has approved the rezoning necessary to support the recommissioning and restart of Duane Arnold and is actively supporting NextEra’s efforts to secure the remaining state and federal approvals.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Jasmine H
Session Chair:
Fan Zhang
Alternate Chair:
Lee T. Maccarone
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Simulation Based Analytical Approaches to Cyber Risk Mitigation in Advanced Nuclear Reactors
8:00–8:20AM PDT
Andrew Hahn (Sandia), Lee Maccarone (Sandia), Mike Rowland (Sandia)
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Requirement for Security Verification and Supply Chain Control of Digital Commercial Off-the-Shelf for Cybersecurity of Nuclear Facilities
8:20–8:40AM PDT
Seunghoon Park (Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control), Kookheui Kwon (Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control), Poe il Park (Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control)
Diagnostics Using Nuclear Plant Cyber Attack Analysis Toolkit
8:40–9:00AM PDT
Japan K. Patel (Univ. Michigan), Athi Varuttamaseni (Brookhaven), Robert W. Youngblood III (INL), John C. Lee (Univ. Michigan)
An Online FDI Detection Scheme Based on Noise Analysis for Nuclear Signals
9:00–9:20AM PDT
Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue Univ.), Vasileios Theos (Purdue Univ.), Zachery Dahm (Purdue Univ.), William Richards (Purdue Univ.), Konstantinos Vasili (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
Pilot Business Case Analysis for Digital Infrastructure Modernization Deployment
9:20–9:40AM PDT
Paul J. Hunton (INL), Sean Lawrie (Lumerra Corp.)
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