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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Getting back to yes: A local perspective on decommissioning, restart, and responsibility
For 45 years, Duane Arnold Energy Center operated in Linn County, Ia., near the town of Palo and just northwest of Cedar Rapids. The facility, owned by NextEra Energy, was the only nuclear power plant in the state.
In August 2020, a historic derecho swept across eastern Iowa with winds approaching 140 miles per hour. Damage to the plant’s cooling towers accelerated a shutdown that had already been planned, and the facility entered decommissioning soon after, with its fuel removed in October of that year. Iowa’s only nuclear plant had gone off line.
Today the national energy landscape looks very different than it did just six short years ago. Electricity demand is rising rapidly as data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and electrification expand across the country. Reliable, carbon-free baseload power has become increasingly valuable. In that context, Linn County has approved the rezoning necessary to support the recommissioning and restart of Duane Arnold and is actively supporting NextEra’s efforts to secure the remaining state and federal approvals.
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Avila A|Session Chair: Jeffrey C. King
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT
Panel|El Capitan A|Session Chair: Jim Byrne
Monday, June 13, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT
El Capitan A|Session Chair: Drew Thomas
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT
El Capitan A|Session Chair: Andrew E. Thomas
Panel|Santa Monica|Sponsored by FCWMD|Cosponsored by ETWDD|Session Chair: Tim P. Tinsley
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|8:00–9:45AM PDT
Santa Monica|Session Chair: Benjamin B. Cipiti
Monday, June 13, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT
Santa Monica|Session Chair: Kaushik Banerjee
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT
Panel|Santa Monica|Session Chair: Jinsuo Zhang
Santa Monica|Session Chair: Chaithanya Balumuru
Panel|Santa Monica|Cosponsored by ETWDD|Session Chair: Tim P. Tinsley
Santa Monica|Session Chair: Tejaswini Vaidya
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT
El Capitan B|Session Chair: Daniel Cole
El Capitan B|Session Chair: Vivek Agarwal
El Capitan B|Cosponsored by NNPD|Session Chair: R. A. Borrelli
Panel|El Capitan B|Session Chair: Edward L. Quinn
Panel|El Capitan B|Session Chair: Ronald L. Boring
El Capitan B|Session Chair: Fan Zhang
El Capitan B|Session Chair: Vaibhav Yadav
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT
Avila A|Session Chair: Kenan Unlu
Avila A|Session Chair: Hyoung K. Lee
Panel|Avila A|Session Chair: Brenden J. Heidrich
Panel|Avila B|Session Chair: Tara M. Pandya
Avila B|Session Chair: Nick Gentile
Avila B|Session Chair: Sebastian Schunert
Avila B|Session Chair: Alex Robinson
Avila B|Session Chair: Aaron Olson
Avila B|Session Chair: Madicken Munk
Malibu|Session Chair: Annabelle Le Coq
Malibu|Session Chair: Jake Quincey
Malibu|Session Chair: J. Rory Kennedy
Malibu|Session Chair: Simon Pimblott
Malibu|Session Chair: Richard Howard
Malibu|Session Chair: Colby Jensen
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT
Capistrano A|Session Chairs: Aaron S. Epiney, Askin Guler Yigitoglu
Panel|Capistrano A|Session Chair: Askin Guler Yigitoglu
Capistrano A|Session Chair: Aaron S. Epiney
Capistrano A|Session Chair: Askin Guler Yigitoglu
El Capitan B|Sponsored by HFICD|Cosponsored by NNPD|Session Chair: R. A. Borrelli
Avila A|Session Chair: R. A. Borrelli
Panel|San Simeon A|Session Chair: John H. Jackson
San Simeon A|Session Chair: John Downing
Capistrano A|Session Chair: Andrew G. Sowder
San Simeon A|Session Chair: Temi Adeyeye
San Simeon A|Session Chair: Haiyan Zhao
San Simeon A|Session Chair: Tim Crook
San Simeon A|Session Chair: W. Neal Mann
San Simeon A|Session Chair: Aman Gupta
Panel|Carmel|Session Chair: Dimitrios Cokinos
Carmel|Session Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Panel|Carmel|Session Chair: Yasir Arafat
Carmel|Session Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Carmel|Session Chair: Stefano Terlizzi
Carmel|Session Chair: Moussa Mahgerefteh
Carmel|Session Chair: Brenden Heidrich
San Simeon B|Session Chair: Lawrence H. Heilbronn
San Simeon B|Session Chair: Adam Hecht
Panel|Avila B|Session Chair: Kelsey Amundson
Panel|San Simeon B|Session Chair: Julianne McCallum
