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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS Winter Conference: DOE, NRC leaders stress need for speedier nuclear approval
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Chris Wright
During speeches at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference & Expo, happening this week in Washington, D.C., Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair David Wright both promised that the Trump administration will speed up nuclear reviews so the U.S. can maintain leadership in nuclear energy.
The DOE’s Wright took a stab at the NRC’s traditionally slow bureaucratic processes in approving primarily large light water reactors in the past, saying that the agency needs to speed up to meet the greater demand for new small modular reactors.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Malibu
Session Chair:
Jake Quincey (Oregon State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Troy Munro
Session Organizer:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Determining the Tensile Strength of Select TRISO-Coated Particle Layers
Tanner Mauseth (Idaho State), Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar (Idaho State), Fei Teng (INL), Subhashish Meher (INL)
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Preliminary Fuel Cycle Analysis of the -UB2 Composite Fuels in Pressurized Water Reactors
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Cihang Lu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Effects of Hydrogen on High Uranium Density Fuels
Adrian Gonzales (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Josh White (LANL), Elizabeth Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Understanding Composite Accident Tolerant Fuel with SiCf/SiCm for NuScale SMR Model: Reactivity Behavior and Potential Future Direction
Kyle V. Bean (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Macklin Zinselmeyer (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology), Kazuma Kobayashi (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology), Dinesh Kumar (Univ. Bristol), Syed Alam (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology)
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