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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The deadline arrives: Checking in on the Reactor Pilot Program
On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by DESD
Monday, June 13, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|El Capitan A
Session Chair:
Jim Byrne (Byrne & Associates)
Alternate Chair:
Miles van Noordennen
Session Organizer:
Dustin G. Miller
This panel will look at diverse decommissioning experiences in the U.S. and Japan and will also address some of the inaccuracies in the recent Netflix documentary with respect to refurbishment of the TMI-2 Polar Crane.
Hideki Masui
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings
Thomas Jones
PG&E
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