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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NRC issues final environmental approval for TerraPower’s SMR
TerraPower announced that the final environmental impact statement for its Natrium small modular reactor has been completed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Monday, June 16, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|State
Session Chair:
Nicolas Stauff (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Jia Zhou (ANL)
Session Organizer:
William N. Mann
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First-Principles Cost Analysis of Advanced High-Temperature Nuclear Plants
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Jacob H. Prosser (Strategic Analysis, Inc.), Max B. Graham (Strategic Analysis, Inc.), Timothy Duffy (Strategic Analysis, Inc.)
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NE-COST plug-in: Expanding ACCERT's Capabilities for Life-Cycle Cost Modeling
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Jia Zhou (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Edward A. Hoffman (ANL)
Open Architecture for Cost Savings in Advanced Nuclear Reactors
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Esther N. Ollennu (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Nahuel Guaita (INL), Sunming Qin (INL)
Uranium Enrichment Plant Economics
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Benjamin S. Jordan (American Centrifuge), David C. O'Keefe (American Centrifuge), Jeffrey R. Cooper (American Centrifuge)
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