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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Swiss nuclear power and the case for long-term operation
Designed for 40 years but built to last far longer, Switzerland’s nuclear power plants have all entered long-term operation. Yet age alone says little about safety or performance. Through continuous upgrades, strict regulatory oversight, and extensive aging management, the country’s reactors are being prepared for decades of continued operation, in line with international practice.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by FCWMD
Monday, June 16, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Indiana/Iowa
Session Chair:
Charles W. Forsberg
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Michael S. Smith
Three salt reactor experiments are under construction in the United States. Kairos Power in Oak Ridge, Tennessee is building the 35-MWt Hermes Fluoride-salt-cooled High-temperature Reactor with clean salt and TRISO fuel. Natura Resources and Abilene Christian University are building a 1 megawatt Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) with fuel dissolved in the salt. TerraPower at Idaho National Laboratory is building a 150-kW Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment. The panel participants from EPRI (Daniel Monegham), Kairos Power (Nader Satvat), Abilene Christian University (Rusty Towell) and TerraPower (Sam Goodrich) will discuss progress in building these reactors and path forward to commercial deployment.
Daniel Moneghan
EPRI
Sam Goodrich
TerraPower
Rusty Towell
Abilene Christian Univ.
Nader Satvat
Kairos Power
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