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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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FERC decision on Crane restart coming in June or July, Constellation execs say
In a first quarter earnings call Monday, executives at Constellation said they should know in June or July the status of a request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to transfer capacity interconnection rights from the company’s Eddystone gas- and-oil-powered plant in Pennsylvania to Crane nuclear power plant (formerly Three Mile Island-1).
Nuclear Fuels and Materials
Technical Session|Nuclear Materials Performance, Prediction and Qualification
Monday, June 1, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MDT|Governor's Square 17
Session Chair:
Elizabeth Sooby (University of Texas - San Antonio)
Alternate Chair:
Jake Quincey (Kairos Power)
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Mechanical and Microstructural Evolution of Proton Irradiated Cr-doped UO2
3:15–3:35PM MDT
Miguel Pena (LANL), Arjen van Veelen, Adrien Terricabras (LANL), Hi Vo (LANL), Matthew Chancey (LANL), Yongqiang Wang (LANL), Sarah C. Finkeldei (University of California Irvine), Joshua T. White (LANL)
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Microstructure- and Fission-Gas-Controlled Cracking and Fragmentation of UO₂ under Rapid Thermal Transients
3:35–3:55PM MDT
Jie Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Kevin Yan, Dong Zhao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Andre Broussard (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Initial Post-Irradiation Examination Results for ANEEL Fuel, a Novel Mixed Thorium-Uranium Oxide Fuel
3:55–4:15PM MDT
Michael Worrall (Clean Core Thorium Energy), Kelley Walker (INL), Paul Chan (Clean Core Thorium Energy), Mehul R. Shah (Clean Core Thorium Energy)
A Comprehensive Study of Surrogate Nitride Fuel for Advanced Nuclear Reactors Prepared by Spark Plasma Sintering
4:15–4:35PM MDT
Blake Wilson (Materials In eXtremes Lab, Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University)
Out-of-Pile Evaluation of Thermal Contact Conductance Parameters on Measurements of Surrogate Fuel Specimen Thermal Conductivity
4:35–4:55PM MDT
Trevor Parker (ORNL), Jacob P. Gorton (ORNL), Kenneth Cooper (ORNL), Richard H. Howard (ORNL)
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