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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
Tuesday, September 16, 2025|8:00–9:40AM CDT|Grand Salon AB
Session Chair:
Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Ashley Raster (Sandia)
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Validation of Modern Nuclear Data Processing in SCALE
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Jesse M. Brown (ORNL), Travis M. Greene (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (ORNL), Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Cihangir Celik (ORNL)
Paper
Neutron Transmission Measurements in Support of the Validation of the ENDF/B-VIII.1 Heavy Paraffinic Oil TSL
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Devin Barry (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Rapp (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Brian Epping (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Amelia Trainer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Quantification of Integral Benchmark Sensitivities to 1D and 2D Thermal Scattering Cross Sections
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Goran Arbanas (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (ORNL), Kemal Ramic (ORNL), Iyad Al-Qasir (ORNL)
Temperature-Dependent Benchmark Testing for H2O and D2O Using Experiments Performed with the New IPEN/MB-01 Setup
9:00–9:10AM CDT
Luiz Leal (ORNL), Adimir dos Santos (ORNL), Travis Greene (ORNL), Mathieu Dupont (ORNL), Kemal Remic (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian (ERIC), Vaibhav Jaiswal (ASNR), Ulysses D'Utra Bitelli (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Mitsuo Yamaguchi (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Hugo Rodrigues Landim (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Fernando de Castro Junqueira (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Gregorio Soares de Sousa (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Michelangelo Durazzo (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Elita Urano (IPEN/CNEN-SP)
