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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|Multi-Scale, Multi-Physics Simulations
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Logan Harbour (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Jin Whan Bae (ORNL)
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Verification of a Multiphysics Gas-Cooled Reactor Simulation via the Method of Manufactured Solutions
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Zane G. Tucker (Oregon State), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State)
Paper
Pebbles' Life Cycle Analysis in Salt-Cooled Pebble Bed Reactor for Enhanced Fuel Performance Assessment
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Ludovic Jantzen (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yves Robert (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
In-Memory, Fully-Parallel Coupling of GeN-Foam and OFFBEAT: Towards a New Milestone in High-Fidelity, Finite-Volume Nuclear Reactor Simulation
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Giovanni Nervi (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Thomas Guilbaud (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Mathieu Hursin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Cell-Wise Temperature and Deformation Reactivity Feedback Modeling in Heat Pipe-Cooled Microreactors
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Chiara Genoni (TAMU), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Vefa Kucukboyaci (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Mangiarotti), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
