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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
Technical Session
Wednesday, September 28, 2022|10:00AM–12:05PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
John Bess (JFoster & Associates, LLC)
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Multifaceted Coded Nuclear Data Libraries Assemblage, Verification and Validation: TENDL-2021
10:00–10:25AM PDT
J-Ch. Sublet (IAEA), Arjan Koning (IAEA), Dimitri Rochman (Paul Scherrer Institut), Mark R. Gilbert (UKAEA), Albert C. Kahler (Kahler Nuclear Data Services), Cedric Jouanne (CEA), Jaakko Leppanen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Steven C. van der Marck (NRG), Paul Romano (ANL)
Paper
Using the MCNP6 Perturbation Capability for Source Nuclide Density Sensitivities
10:25–10:50AM PDT
Sensitivity Analysis in Coupled Radiation Transport Simulations
10:50–11:15AM PDT
Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico), Brian Franke (Sandia), Ron Kensek (Sandia), Aaron Olson (Sandia)
New Capabilities in SENSMG, a Tool for Multigroup Discrete Ordinates Sensitivity Analysis
11:15–11:40AM PDT
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL), Alexander R. Clark (LANL)
Availability of Shielding Benchmark Experiment Data in the ICSBEP Handbook
11:40AM–12:05PM PDT
John D. Bess (JFoster and Assoc.), Tatiana Ivanova (OECD NEA), Shuichi Tsuda (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
