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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
Technical Session|Operations and Power (OPD)
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|8:00–9:45AM MDT|Director's Row H
Session Chair:
W. N. Mann (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Keith J. Drudy (Studsvik Scandpower)
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Review of Turbine Upgrade Methodology in Support of Nuclear Power Plant Uprate
8:00–8:20AM MDT
Khaldoon Al-Dawood (INL), Junyung Kim (INL), Tyler Westover
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Functional Decomposition Approach for Early-Stage Nuclear Power Plant Design and Scaling
8:20–8:40AM MDT
Khaldoon Al-Dawood (INL), Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL)
Lean Delivery for the Nuclear Renaissance: A Delivery Framework for SMRs and Advanced Nuclear Projects
8:40–9:00AM MDT
Haley Rogers (Boulder Associates)
Advanced Small Modular Reactors Technology Readiness Level According to Maritime Applicability
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Aleksey Rezvoi, Nima Fathi (TAMU)
Evaluation of Potential Uses of LLMs to Compile Reactor Data
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Michael Parnell (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
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