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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|Advanced Reactor Design and Analysis - Circulating-Fuel Reactors
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|8:00–9:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley B
Session Chair:
Joshua Hanophy (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Dean Wang (Ohio State)
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A Computationally Tractable Model for Spatially Resolved Nuclide Concentrations in Flowing Fuel Molten Salt Reactors
8:00–8:25AM MDT
Luke Seifert (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), Scott Richards (ANL), Madicken Munk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kathryn Huff (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Paper
Role of Recirculation in Reactivity Loss in Circulating-Fuel Reactors
8:25–8:50AM MDT
Lubomir Bures (Seaborg Technologies)
Low Resolution Simulation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Molten Salt Irradiation Flow Loop
8:50–9:15AM MDT
Seth Dayawansa (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin), David Carpenter (MIT), Charles Forsberg (MIT)
Modeling Continuous Online Refueling with SCALE 6.3.1 and Serpent-2 in the EIRENE Novel Molten Salt Reactor Design
9:15–9:40AM MDT
C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Texas, Austin), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), John P. Carter (INL)
