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Featured Speakers

Opening Plenary | Monday, December 11, 2023
8:00–9:00AM CST

"Nuclear Energy and Materials:
Needs for the future"

Dr. Jenifer Shafer
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Evening Banquet | Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | 6:00–8:00PM CST

"Development and Qualification of Materials for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors"

Greg Vetterick
TerraPower, LLC.


Invited Speakers

  • Osman El Atwani (PNNL)
  • Sudipta Biswas (INL)
  • Jesper Byggmästar (Univ. Helsinki)
  • Laurent Capolungo (LANL)
  • Michael W. Cooper (LANL)
  • Mark R. Daymond (Queen’s Univ.)
  • Denia Djokic (Univ. Michigan)
  • Carolin Fink (Ohio State)
  • Xiaofeng Guo (Washington State)
  • Maxim Gussev (ORNL)
  • Khalid Hattar (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
  • Eric J. Lang (Univ. New Mexico)
  • Sabina Markelj (Jožef Stefan Institute)
  • Maylise Nastar (Univ. Paris-Saclay)
  • Kai Nordlund (Univ. Helsinki)
  • Patricia D. Paviet (PNNL)
  • Elizabeth S. Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
  • Stephen Tate (EPRI)
  • Jason R. Trelewicz (Stony Brook Univ.)
  • Julie D. Tucker (Oregon State)
  • Yanwen Zhang (INL)
  • Yajie Zhao (ORNL)

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors


A Special Thank You to Our Exhibitors



Join us in person in beautiful New Orleans for the third installment of Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems, MiNES, to focus on research in the fission reactor materials community. The MiNES conference series grew out of two biannual symposia: Microstructure Processes in Irradiated Materials (MPIM), held at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, and Nuclear Fuel and Structural Materials (NFSM), held at the ANS Annual Meeting. The conference takes place biannually, with TMS and ANS alternating sponsorship.