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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Proposed FY 2027 DOE, NRC budgets ask for less
The White House is requesting $1.5 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy in the fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, about 9 percent less than the previous year.
The request from the Trump administration is one of several associated with nuclear energy in the proposal, which was released Friday. Congress still must review and vote on the budget.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Great America 1/2
Session Chair:
Lori Brady
Alternate Chair:
Sukesh K. Aghara
Session Organizer:
Kyle C. Hartig
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Regimes of Applicability for Nuclear Reactor Cost Estimation Methodologies
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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Development of the PRIME Methodology for Nuclear Reactor Cost Estimation
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Rohan Milind Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Abdalla About-Jaoude (INL), Levi Larsen (INL)
Small Modular Reactors: Opportunities and Impacts for Indiana
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.), Ryan Gallagher (Purdue Univ.), Indraneel Kumar (Purdue Center), Kara A. Salazar (Purdue Univ.), Tamara Ogle (Purdue Univ.), Michael D. Wilcox (Purdue Univ.), Anne Lucietto (Purdue Univ.), Taek K. Kim (ANL), Becca Gillespie (Energy Systems Network), Paul Mitchell (Energy Systems Network), Burton Brooklyn (Ivy Tech Comm. College of Indiana), Seungjin Kim (Purdue Univ.)
Sustainable Energy Marketplace and Societal Readiness
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Hyungjin Kim (Penn State), Saya Lee (Penn State), Nonna Sorokina (Penn State), Darshana Sunoj (Penn State)
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