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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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Five companies, five bases: The Army’s Janus Program takes shape
Between the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses and Nuclear Energy Launch Pad programs, August has already been a busy month for federal partnerships with the nuclear industry.
That trend continues: On Wednesday, the Department of the Army announced that it has selected five nuclear reactor developers—Antares Nuclear, BWXT Advanced Technologies, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, Radiant Industries, and Westinghouse Government Services—each paired with a different military installation, for its Janus Program.
This week, the nuclear community descended on Dallas, Texas, for the second annual Nuclear Energy Conference and Expo, the premier industry-focused nuclear conference cohosted by the American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute. Among the plenary panelists was Jeff Waksman, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy, and environment. Waksman has been closely involved in the development of the Janus Program, and the morning before the program’s new selections were unveiled, he provided insights on its ultimate goals at NECX 2026.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fundamental Irradiation Damage
Thursday, December 14, 2023|8:00–9:40AM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Flyura Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki)
Track Organizers:
Steve Zinkle (University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mitra Taheri (Johns Hopkins University)
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Analysis of Deuterium and Defects in Tungsten by Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy and Nuclear Reaction Analysis in Channeling Configuration
8:00–8:40AM CST
S. Markelj (Jožef Stefan Institute), M. Kelemen (Jožef Stefan Institute), E. Punzón-Quijorna (Jožef Stefan Institute), T. Schwarz-Selinger (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik), X. Jin (Univ. Helsinki), F. Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki), K. Nordlund (Univ. Helsinki), J. Zavasnik (Jožef Stefan Institute), A. Sestan (Jožef Stefan Institute), M.L. Crespillo (Center for Micro Analysis of Materials), G. Garcia López (Center for Micro Analysis of Materials), R. Heller (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
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Investigating Radiation Damage via a Novel XRD Technique, Convolutional Multiple Whole Profile (CMWP)
8:40–9:00AM CST
Kavi Sharma (Univ. Sheffield), Helen Swan (National Nuclear Laboratory), Tamas Ungar (Univ. Manchester), Susan Morgan (National Nuclear Laboratory), Lewis Owen (Univ. Sheffield), Amy Gandy (Univ. Sheffield)
In-situ Electrochemical Studies of the Effects of Irradiation with a Bremsstrahlung X-Ray Source on the Post-Transition Corrosion of Zircaloy-4
9:00–9:20AM CST
D.M. Bartels (Univ. Notre Dame), D.C. Martin (Univ. Notre Dame), B. Ensor (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), D.M. Rishel (Naval Nuclear Laboratory (retired)), S.L. Fisher (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), B.J. Usman (Univ. Notre Dame)
Study of the Effect of Helium on Prismatic Loop Evolution in Irradiated Fe-Cr Alloys Using Cluster Dynamics Code
9:20–9:40AM CST
Anthony Tom (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Dwaipayan Dasgupta (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Sophie Blondel (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Brian Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)