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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|Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
Monday, April 28, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Lawrence B
Session Chair:
Ben Forget (MIT)
Alternate Chair:
Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
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Monte Carlo Sampling Strategy for a Non-Perturbative Approach to the Neutron Noise Equation: a Proof of Concept
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Axel Fauvel (CEA), Amélie Rouchon (CEA), Davide Mancusi (CEA), Andrea Zoia (CEA)
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Comparison of Branching and Branchless Zero-Variance Games
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Thayz Gomes Ferreira (CEA), Francesco Rossi (CEA), Alexis Jinaphanh (CEA), Davide Mancusi (CEA), Andrea Zoia (CEA)
Real Variance Estimation in iDTMC Method Using Autoregressive (1) Model
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Jaehyeong Jang (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Selection-Driven Evolutionary Population Control for Kinetic Monte Carlo Variance Reduction
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Martin Skretteberg (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)