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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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Five companies, five bases: The Army’s Janus Program takes shape
Between the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses and Nuclear Energy Launch Pad programs, August has already been a busy month for federal partnerships with the nuclear industry.
That trend continues: On Wednesday, the Department of the Army announced that it has selected five nuclear reactor developers—Antares Nuclear, BWXT Advanced Technologies, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, Radiant Industries, and Westinghouse Government Services—each paired with a different military installation, for its Janus Program.
This week, the nuclear community descended on Dallas, Texas, for the second annual Nuclear Energy Conference and Expo, the premier industry-focused nuclear conference cohosted by the American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute. Among the plenary panelists was Jeff Waksman, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy, and environment. Waksman has been closely involved in the development of the Janus Program, and the morning before the program’s new selections were unveiled, he provided insights on its ultimate goals at NECX 2026.
1:00–2:45PM PDT
Panel|El Capitan A|Sponsored by DESD
Session Chair: Jim Byrne|Alternate Chair: Miles van Noordennen
El Capitan B|Sponsored by HFICD
Session Chair: Daniel Cole|Alternate Chair: Fan Zhang
Avila A|Sponsored by IRD
Session Chair: Kenan Unlu|Alternate Chair: Jung Rim
Panel|Avila B|Sponsored by MCD
Session Chair: Tara M. Pandya|Alternate Chair: Madicken Munk
Malibu|Sponsored by MSTD
Session Chair: Annabelle Le Coq|Alternate Chair: Troy Munro
Capistrano A|Sponsored by NISD
Session Chairs: Aaron S. Epiney, Askin Guler Yigitoglu
Panel|San Simeon A|Sponsored by OPD
Session Chair: John H. Jackson|Alternate Chair: Piyush Sabharwall
Panel|Carmel|Sponsored by RPD
Session Chair: Dimitrios Cokinos|Alternate Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
San Simeon B|Sponsored by RPSD
Session Chair: Lawrence H. Heilbronn|Alternate Chair: Amir A. Bahadori
3:15–5:00PM PDT
Santa Monica|Sponsored by FCWMD
Session Chair: Benjamin B. Cipiti
Session Chair: Vivek Agarwal|Alternate Chair: Fan Zhang
Session Chair: Hyoung K. Lee|Alternate Chair: Igor Jovanovic
Session Chair: Jake Quincey|Alternate Chair: Troy Munro
San Simeon A|Sponsored by OPD
Session Chair: John Downing|Alternate Chair: Temi Adeyeye
Capistrano A|Sponsored by OPD
Session Chair: Andrew G. Sowder|Alternate Chair: W. Neal Mann
Carmel|Sponsored by RPD
Session Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni|Alternate Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Chair: Adam Hecht|Alternate Chair: Amir A. Bahadori
Panel|Avila B|Sponsored by Young Members Group
Session Chair: Kelsey Amundson|Alternate Chair: Julianne McCallum
10:15AM–12:00PM PDT
Session Chair: Kaushik Banerjee|Alternate Chair: Christina Leggett
El Capitan B|Sponsored by HFICD|Cosponsored by NNPD
Session Chair: R. A. Borrelli|Alternate Chair: Fan Zhang
Panel|Avila A|Sponsored by IRD
Session Chair: Brenden J. Heidrich|Alternate Chair: Kenan Unlu
Avila B|Sponsored by MCD
Session Chair: Nick Gentile|Alternate Chair: Tara Pandya
Session Chair: J. Rory Kennedy|Alternate Chair: Kenneth J. Geelhood
Panel|Capistrano A|Sponsored by NISD
Session Chair: Askin Guler Yigitoglu|Alternate Chair: Vaibhav Yadav
Session Chair: Yasir Arafat|Alternate Chair: Abdalla Abou-Jaoude
El Capitan A|Sponsored by ETWDD
Session Chair: Drew Thomas
Panel|Santa Monica|Sponsored by FCWMD
Session Chair: Jinsuo Zhang|Alternate Chair: Christina Leggett
Panel|El Capitan B|Sponsored by HFICD
Session Chair: Edward L. Quinn|Alternate Chair: Richard T. Wood
Session Chair: Sebastian Schunert|Alternate Chair: Nick Gentile
Avila A|Sponsored by NNPD
Session Chair: R. A. Borrelli|Alternate Chair: Cornelius Milmoe
Session Chair: Temi Adeyeye|Alternate Chair: Tejaswini Vaidya
Session Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov|Alternate Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Panel|San Simeon B|Sponsored by Young Members Group
Session Chair: Julianne McCallum
Avila A|Sponsored by ANSTD
Session Chair: Jeffrey C. King|Alternate Chair: Richard H. Howard
Session Chair: Andrew E. Thomas|Alternate Chair: James E. Baciak
Session Chair: Chaithanya Balumuru|Alternate Chair: Christina Leggett
Session Chair: Ronald L. Boring|Alternate Chair: Jonghyun Kim
Session Chair: Alex Robinson|Alternate Chair: Jeremey Sweezy
Session Chair: Aaron S. Epiney|Alternate Chair: Askin Guler Yigitoglu
Session Chair: Haiyan Zhao|Alternate Chair: Temi Adeyeye
Session Chair: Stefano Terlizzi|Alternate Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov
8:00–9:45AM PDT
Panel|Santa Monica|Sponsored by FCWMD|Cosponsored by ETWDD
Session Chair: Tim P. Tinsley|Alternate Chair: Christina Leggett
Session Chair: Simon Pimblott|Alternate Chair: Troy Munro
Session Chair: Tim Crook
Session Chair: Tejaswini Vaidya|Alternate Chair: Christina Leggett
Session Chair: Fan Zhang
Session Chair: Aaron Olson|Alternate Chair: Stefano Terlizzi
Session Chair: Askin Guler Yigitoglu|Alternate Chair: Aaron S. Epiney
Session Chair: W. Neal Mann|Alternate Chair: Tim Crook
Session Chair: Moussa Mahgerefteh|Alternate Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Chair: Vaibhav Yadav|Alternate Chair: N. Dianne Ezell
Session Chair: Madicken Munk|Alternate Chair: Alex Robinson
Session Chair: Richard Howard|Alternate Chair: Troy Munro
Session Chair: Temi Adeyeye|Alternate Chair: Tim Crook
Session Chair: Brenden Heidrich
Session Chair: Colby Jensen|Alternate Chair: Troy Munro
Session Chair: Aman Gupta|Alternate Chair: Gale Hauck
