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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|Verification, Validation, and Benchmark Experiment Design
Monday, April 28, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Sam Pasmann (Thea Energy)
Alternate Chair:
Cole Gentry (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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Single Grid Error Estimate in Two-Dimensional Neutron Transport Problems
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Ben Whewell (Univ. Notre Dame), Ryan G. McClarren (Univ. Notre Dame)
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Verification Methods for the AGORA Geometry Navigation Engine of the TRIPOLI-5 Monte Carlo Code
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Coline Larmier (CEA), Davide Mancusi (CEA), Vincenzo di Blasi (CEA), Andrea Zoia (CEA)
Presented by Mikolaj Adam Kowalski (CEA)
Ants Solution to IAEA-Hex Kinetics Benchmark
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Antti Rintala (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Validation of OpenMC Using the KRUSTY Component Critical Experiments
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Michael Anthony Mendes (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
