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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|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Governor's Square 17
Session Chair:
Cynthia Adkins (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Jake Quincey (Kairos Power)
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Revisiting Nb-based Refractory Alloys for Advanced Nuclear Systems
1:00–1:20PM MDT
Holden Hyer (ORNL), Clement Ekaputra (ORNL), Amit Shyam (ORNL), Jeff Brookins (ORNL)
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Effects of Accelerated Thermal Aging on the Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Properties of High-Nitrogen Austenitic Stainless Steel
1:20–1:40PM MDT
SEONGJUN KIM (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Junhyuk Ham (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Ji Hyun Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology)
Ultrafine-grained and Nanocrystalline Steels with Enhanced Properties for Nuclear Applications
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Haiming Wen (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Anish Ranjan (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Joshua Rittenhouse (INL)
Neutron Irradiation Response of High-Pedigree AM 316H Using HFIR
2:00–2:20PM MDT
Kory Linton (ORNL), Annabelle Le Coq, Jesse W. Werden, Ethan Blount (ORNL), Nicholas G. Russell (ORNL), Caleb P. Massey (ORNL)
Mechanical Behavior of Refractory Multi-Principal Element Alloys Processed via Spark Plasma Sintering Under Neutron Irradiation
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Kyle R. Holloway (INL), Anilas Karimpilakkal, Jason Schulthess, Boopathy Kombaiah (INL), Joseph W. Newkirk (Missouri S&T), Wen Jiang (NCSU), Lingfeng He (INL)
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