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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections
Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050—reaching 2.6 times the 2024 level—with small modular reactors expected to play a pivotal role in this high-case scenario.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi announced the new projections, contained in the annual report Energy, Electricity, and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2050 at the 69th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
In the report’s high-case scenario, nuclear electrical generating capacity is projected to increase to from 377 GW at the end of 2024 to 992 GW by 2050. In a low-case scenario, capacity rises 50 percent, compared with 2024, to 561 GW. SMRs are projected to account for 24 percent of the new capacity added in the high case and for 5 percent in the low case.
Technical Session
Wednesday, May 11, 2022|4:00–6:00PM EDT|Orchid
Session Chair:
Kelsa B. Palomares (AMA)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Dayna Ise (NASA)
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Development of Multilayered Coatings for NERVA-Type Graphite Fuel Elements -- An Overview
S. V. Raj (NASA Glenn Research Center)
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High Temperature Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Cermet Fuel for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP)
James Mudd (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Jeremy Watts (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Jhonathan Rosales (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Ryan Wilkerson (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Brian Taylor (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Gregory Hilmas (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Joseph Graham (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Zirconium Carbide Circular Prismatic Core Geometries by Spark Plasma Sintering -- An Empirical Perspective
Caen Ang (USNC-Tech), Tom Hinklin (USNC-Core), Brandon Connor (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Cameron Hilliard (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Sarah Yue (USNC-Tech), Tim Ironman (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ethan Chaleff (USNC-Tech), Gavin Garside (USNC-Core)
A System Design Process for NASA NTP Reactor Testing Reference Design Concepts
J. Gustafson (BWX Technologies), J. Monito (BWX Technologies), J. Witter (BWX Technologies)
Modeling of System Response to Faulted Operation of Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
Jordan D. Rader (ORNL)
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