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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
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Governor's Square 17
Session Chair:
Annabelle Le Coq (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Jake Quincey (Kairos Power)
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Thermomechanical Properties of Ultrahigh-Temperature Ceramics from First Principles: Influence of Electron-Vibration Couplings, Neutron Irradiation, and Compositional Disorder
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Michele Simoncelli (Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University)
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Targeted Irradiations for Evaluating SiC/SiC Cladding Performance
10:20–10:40AM MDT
Christian M. Petrie (ORNL), Nicholas G. Russell (ORNL), Daniel Hott (ORNL), Peter Doyle (ORNL), David Chandler (ORNL), Jose D. Arregui-Mena (ORNL), Sean Gonderman (General Atomics), Christian P. Deck (General Atomics), Takaaki Koyanagi (ORNL)
Development of Compositionally Complex Carbides as Structural Materials for Fission and Fusion Energy
10:40–11:00AM MDT
Bai Cui (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln)
Correlation of Global Stoichiometry, Crystal Chemistry, and Phase Morphology in UC/UC₂ Kernels Produced by Carbothermic Reduction
11:00–11:20AM MDT
Denise Adorno Lopes (ORNL), Katherine I. Montoya (ORNL), Bekah Petrosky (ORNL), James M. Kurley III, William F. Cureton, Eddie Lopez Honorato (ORNL), Andrew T. Nelson (ORNL), Ryan Heldt
Metal hydride neutron moderators for advanced nuclear applications
11:20–11:40AM MDT
Thomas P. Davis (Oxford Sigma), Joe Pollard (Oxford Sigma)
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