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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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NRC issues draft EA/FONSI for Duane Arnold restart
Efforts by NextEra Energy to restart the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant as early as 2029 continue to move forward with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's preliminary environmental assessment and determination that the restart would have no significant environmental impacts.
On Thursday, the NRC posted a draft environmental assessment and a finding of no significant impact for the Palo, Iowa, facility; the Federal Register notice was published on Monday. The Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing is a cooperating agency on the draft EA, as the DOE is considering providing financial assistance to the restart project.
Technical Session|Deterministic Transport Methods and Applications
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|8:00–9:40AM MDT|Lawrence A
Session Chair:
Ben Yee (LLNL)
Alternate Chair:
Joe Zerr (LANL)
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Heuristic-Based Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applied to Ray Effect Mitigation Methods
8:00–8:25AM MDT
Kevin C. Sawatzky (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Paper
Robust Positive and Monotone Schemes on Nonorthogonal Quadratures for Highly Anisotropic Scattering
8:25–8:50AM MDT
Charles Bienvenue (Polytechnique Montréal), Ahmed Naceur (Polytechnique Montréal), Jean-François Carrier (Université de Montréal), Alain Hébert (Polytechnique Montréal)
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Assessing AI-Enhanced Single-Sweep Approximations for Transport Problems with Forward-Peaked Scattering in Slab Geometry
8:50–9:15AM MDT
Japan K. Patel (Ohio State), Matthew C. Schmidt (Washington Univ. St. Louis), Anthony Magliari (Varian Medical Systems), Todd A. Wareing (Varian Medical Systems)
Sweep-Based Uncollided-Flux Treatment On Unstructured Grids
9:15–9:40AM MDT
Connor Woodsford (TAMU), Jean C. Ragusa (TAMU), Jim E. Morel (TAMU)
