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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 Evolution of Material Properties
Tuesday, December 12, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 1
Session Chair:
Larry Aagesen (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Thak Sang Byun (ORNL)
Track Organizers:
Dong Liu (University of Bristol)
Gary Was (Univ. Michigan)
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Generative Machine Learning for Microstructural Properties of Chemically Disordered Materials: Application to (U, Pu)O2 Nuclear Fuels
10:00–10:20AM CST
M.J. Karcz (CEA), L. Messina (CEA), E. Kawasaki (CEA), E. Bourasseau (CEA)
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Analysis of Radially Resolved Thermal Conductivity in High Burnup Mixed Oxide Fuel
10:20–10:40AM CST
Joshua Ferrigno (Ohio State), Tsvetoslav Pavlov (INL), Pierre-Clement Simon (INL), Fabiola Cappia (INL), Marat Khafizov (Ohio State)
Structure and Phase Evolution in Uranium Nitride Fuels: Insights from In Situ Neutron Diffraction.
10:40–11:00AM CST
J.H. Stansby (UNSW), Y. Mishchenko (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), S. Patnaik (INL), F.B. Sweidan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), M. Ranger (UNSW), V.K. Peterson (ANSTO), J.R. Hester (ANSTO), C. Baldwin (ANSTO), P. Olsson (INL), P.A. Burr (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), D. Adorno-Lopes (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), E.G. Obbard (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Measuring Thermal Contact Resistance in Nuclear Fuel-Cladding Assemblies
11:00–11:20AM CST
Najeb M. Abdul-Jabbar (LANL), E. Kardoulaki (LANL), Shane C. Mann (LANL), Christopher Matthews (LANL), Joshua T. White (LANL)
Synchrotron Analysis of Spent Fuel Irradiated in LWR: Focus on the Inner Cladding Wall
11:20–11:40AM CST
C. Schneider (PSI), M. Makowska (PSI), G. Kuri (PSI), J. Bertsch (PSI)