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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Getting back to yes: A local perspective on decommissioning, restart, and responsibility
For 45 years, Duane Arnold Energy Center operated in Linn County, Ia., near the town of Palo and just northwest of Cedar Rapids. The facility, owned by NextEra Energy, was the only nuclear power plant in the state.
In August 2020, a historic derecho swept across eastern Iowa with winds approaching 140 miles per hour. Damage to the plant’s cooling towers accelerated a shutdown that had already been planned, and the facility entered decommissioning soon after, with its fuel removed in October of that year. Iowa’s only nuclear plant had gone off line.
Today the national energy landscape looks very different than it did just six short years ago. Electricity demand is rising rapidly as data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and electrification expand across the country. Reliable, carbon-free baseload power has become increasingly valuable. In that context, Linn County has approved the rezoning necessary to support the recommissioning and restart of Duane Arnold and is actively supporting NextEra’s efforts to secure the remaining state and federal approvals.
For full papers, presentation needs to be on a USB drive; if unable to use USB, contact your session chair. You will not be able to use your own laptop and must use the conference-provided laptop.
As back-ups to the USB drive, ANS recommends that you email your slides to yourself and upload them to the meeting platform.
Presenters will not be able to access the internet via the session-room laptop.
Paper presentations will be 20 minutes in length followed by a 5-minute discussion period. Lightning Talks will be 5 minutes each with a minute for transition; Q&A will not follow Lightning Talks.
To find or confirm your presentation time, use the Search the Program box in the Technical Sessions program. You can search by your name. Note that for Lightning Talks, if a speaker is not present, we will move onto the next talk even if it does not fit into the published time frame.
All presenters and panelists need to be registered for the conference.
To upload your slides to the conference website as a back-up:
Must be registered for NETS 2025 to access the website.
Click “Manage Your Papers” in the left-hand navigation bar (under your name) and then “Attachments/Add a New Attachment.”
To add your presentation, click “Add a New Attachment,” select the Presentation Slides (Admins) attachment type, add a document name, upload the file, and click “Add New Attachment."
On the day of your session:
Arrive to your assigned room (as listed in the program) at least 15 minutes before the start of the session.
Bring your slides on your USB drive to the session room. (Note: If you are presenting a Lightning Talk, you will have already emailed your slides to the technical program chair.)
Provide the session chair with a brief biography for introductions.
Do not ask the session chair to reschedule your presentation within the session. Many attendees schedule their attendance at various sessions in accordance with the order of presentations listed in the program.
Technical session rooms will have the following equipment, which must remain in the room:
Laptop computer
LCD projector, screen, and laser pointer
Microphone
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