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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 MSTD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
Tsvetoslav Pavlov (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Applications of High Energy Heavy Ion Irradiation for Nuclear Fuels and Materials Accelerated Testing
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Abdellatif Yacout (ANL), Bei Ye (ANL), Kun Mo (ANL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Sumit Bhattacharya (ANL), Laura Jamison (ANL), Peter Mouche (ANL)
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Post-Irradiation Analysis of Accelerator-Based High Energy Xe Ion Irradiation of U-10Mo
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Matthew J. Jasica (ANL), Peter A. Mouche (ANL), Laura M. Jamison (ANL), Abdellatif M. Yacout (ANL)
In-Situ Ion Irradiation of a Spent UO2 Fuel
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Sadman Sakib (NCSU), Yunyuan Lu (NCSU), Cameron B. Howard (INL), Chao Jiang (INL), Sudipta Biswas (INL), Dewen Yushu (INL), Jatuporn Burns (INL), Wei-Yeng Chen (ANL), Lingfeng He (NCSU)
Highly Porous Resolidified Tungsten Microstructures Under Fusion-like High Heat Flux and Focused Ion Beam
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Minsuk Seo (LLNL), A. Leigh Winfrey (State Univ. New York Maritime College)
Characterization of the Structural Changes of ZrB2 Ceramics Under Heavy Ion Irradiation
11:20–11:40AM PDT
Narrie Loftus (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Joseph Graham (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
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