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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|Depletion Analysis Methods
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Lawrence A
Session Chair:
Rabab R. Elzohery (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Tech)
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High-fidelity Pebble Bed Reactor Depletion Based on Pebble Tracking Transport in Griffin
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Yaqi Wang (INL), Joshua Hanophy (INL), Javier Ortensi (INL), Namjae Choi (INL)
Paper
Numerical Method Improvements in Griffin for Pebble Bed Reactors with a Focus on the Computation of Burnup
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Joshua Hanophy (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL), Rodrigo de Oliveira (INL)
Accounting for Self-Shielding Effects in Advanced Inventory Simulation, Using Probability Table, Universal Curve Methods
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Jean-Christophe Sublet (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), Mark Gilbert (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
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Fast Burnup Calculation Method Based on Neutron Spectrum Reconstruction with Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Regression Model
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Tomoaki Watanabe (JAEA), Naoto Aizawa (Tohoku Univ.), Go Chiba (Hokkaido Univ.), Kenichi Tada (JAEA), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.)
