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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC approves TerraPower construction permit
Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has approved TerraPower’s construction permit application for Kemmerer Unit 1, the company’s first deployment of Natrium, its flagship sodium fast reactor.
This approval is a significant milestone on three fronts. For TerraPower, it represents another step forward in demonstrating its technology. For the Department of Energy, it reflects progress (despite delays) for the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). For the NRC, it is the first approval granted to a commercial reactor in nearly a decade—and the first approval of a commercial non–light water reactor in more than 40 years.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Stephanie Bruffey (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Mich Leana (ANS)
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Comparing HALEU Demand Among Advanced Reactor Fuel Cycle Transitions
Amanda M. Bachmann (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kathryn D. Huff (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Paper
Electrochemical Behavior of Co, Ni in Molten LiCl-KCl for Decontamination of Radioactive Wastes
Seokjoo Yoon (KAIST), Sungyeol Choi (KAIST)
Structural Prediction of Actinide-Bearing Hollandites for Nuclear Waste Forms
Amir M. Mofrad (Univ. of South Carolina), Juliano Schorne-Pinto (Univ. of South Carolina), Matthew S. Christian (Univ. of South Carolina), Theodore M. Besmann (Univ. of South Carolina)
Decomposition of Organoiodides using Electric Discharge as a Pretreatment Process for Adsorption
Chaithanya Balumuru (Univ. of Idaho), John Stanford (Univ. of Idaho), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho), Krishnan Raja (Univ. of Idaho), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
Tritium Absorption on Graphene
Jungkyu Park (Kennesaw State Univ.), Bryce Atchley (Kennesaw State Univ.), Erica Wu (Wheeler High School), Eduardo B. Farfán (Kennesaw State Univ.)
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