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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
Standards Program
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Nuclear News 40 Under 40—2025
Last year, we proudly launched the inaugural Nuclear News 40 Under 40 list to shine a spotlight on the exceptional young professionals driving the nuclear sector forward as the nuclear community faces a dramatic generational shift. We weren’t sure how a second list would go over, but once again, our members resoundingly answered the call, confirming what we already knew: The nuclear community is bursting with vision, talent, and extraordinary dedication.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Jasmine C
Session Chair:
Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
Alternate Chair:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
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Q-Learning Empowered Economic Dispatch for Nuclear-Driven Integrated Energy Systems
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Athanasios Ioannis Arvanitidis (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Paper
Quantifying Investment Risk: Analysis of the Purchase Decision of a Nuclear Power Plant
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Ryan Spangler (INL), Jason Hansen (INL), Erna Gevondyan (ANL), T.K. Kim (ANL)
Cost Savings Through Power Controlled Critical Heat Flux Margin
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Assil Halimi (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Using an Energy Justice Framework to Improve Regulatory Policy
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Gale E. Hauck (ORNL), Steven A. Arndt (ORNL)
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