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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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FERC decision on Crane restart coming in June or July, Constellation execs say
In a first quarter earnings call Monday, executives at Constellation said they should know in June or July the status of a request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to transfer capacity interconnection rights from the company’s Eddystone gas- and-oil-powered plant in Pennsylvania to Crane nuclear power plant (formerly Three Mile Island-1).
Technical Session|Fuel Management
Monday, July 21, 2025|10:00AM–12:05PM EDT|Palm Room
Session Chair:
Dave G. Knott
Alternate Chair:
Jeffrey A. Borkowski
Session Organizer:
Scott P. Palmtag
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The CONCORS Software Method for Coupled Code Simulation
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Matthew Adler (Studsvik), Jeffrey Borkowski (Studsvik), Lotfi Belblidia (Studsvik)
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Recent Developments and Applications of the SOSA Shuffling Sequence Code
10:25–10:50AM EDT
P. H. Wakker (NRG PALLAS), M. P. Brinkman (NRG PALLAS), H. P. M. Gibcus (NRG PALLAS)
Extension of the In-Core Shuffling Algorithm to PWRs in MARLA
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Dave Knott (Studsvik), Christian Oyarzun (Studsvik), Tung D.C. Nguyen (Studsvik), Jeffrey Borkowski (Studsvik)
Novel Evolutionary Algorithm for Solution of Multicycle Core and Fuel Design Optimization
11:15–11:40AM EDT
David Kropaczek (Veracity Nuclear), Benjamin Collins (Veracity Nuclear), Aaron Graham (Veracity Nuclear), Andrew Godfrey (Veracity Nuclear)
Reinforcement Learning for BWR Core-Level Fuel Management
11:40AM–12:00PM EDT
Loukas Carayannopoulos (MIT), Michael Holmes (Constellation), Nicholas Szewczyk (Constellation), Kathryn Biegel (Constellation), James Tusar (Constellation), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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