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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.
Plenary Session|Panel
Monday, June 13, 2022|8:00–11:00AM PDT|Pacific D
We’ve been through a lot in the last 2 years: a global pandemic and associated disruption of the global economic system, broadscale shocks in energy prices and availability, and strengthened international momentum toward deep decarbonization and ultimately Net Zero. There is palpable excitement in the nuclear community about the future prospects for the harnessed atom. Challenges await, but a new wave of nuclear technology innovation promises to play a larger role in the evolving geopolitical landscape.
Moderator
ANS Annual Meeting 2022 General ChairPer Peterson Chief Nuclear Officer, Kairos Power
Keynote Speakers
Ted NordhausFounder and Executive Director Breakthrough Institute
Dr. Dan RaskySenior Scientist, NASA Chief, Space Portal Office
Christine King Director, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN)
Kathryn A. McCarthy, Ph.D.Oak Ridge National LaboratoryAssociate Laboratory Director for Fusion and Fission Energy and Science
Kristine SvinickiFormer Chair, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionAdjunct Professor, University of Michigan
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