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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
Technical Session|Testing, Evaluation, and Production Supply Chain
Tuesday, April 28, 2026|1:00–2:00PM EDT|Room 305
Session Chair:
Joe Hough
Alternate Chair:
Kenton Sherick
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Multichannel Ultraviolet–Visible Absorption Spectroscopy for Radiochemical Process Monitoring
1:00–1:06PM EDT
Luke R. Sadergaski (ORNL), Cannon J. Giglio (ORNL), Colin Patricelli (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Sara E. Gilson (ORNL), Sawyer B. Irvine, Kristian G. Myhre (ORNL)
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Temperature Dependent Nuclear Data Validation for Systems at Low Temperatures
1:06–1:12PM EDT
Eric Aboud (LLNL), Jesse Norris (LLNL), Jacob Glesmann (LLNL), Catherine Percher (LLNL)
Hyperspectral Imaging for Chromatographic Separations
1:12–1:18PM EDT
Cannon Giglio (ORNL), Kristian Myhre (ORNL), Sawyer Irvine (ORNL), Shams Al Azzawi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Multimodal Predictive Tracking of Nd(III) Through Ion Exchange Chromatography Column Separations
1:18–1:24PM EDT
Sawyer Irvine (ORNL), Luke Sadergaski (ORNL), Cannon Giglio (ORNL), Tom Hylton (ORNL), Kristian Myhre (ORNL)
Development of a Multivariate Analysis Code for Mediated Electrochemical Oxidization Degradation Product Characterization
1:24–1:30PM EDT
Ethan Villarreal (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Joshua Leach (ORNL), Briana Schrage (ORNL), Kristian Myhre (ORNL), Jisue Braatz (ORNL)
Experiments of a Radial Turbine Design for Use with the Buckeye BUBLERR
1:30–1:36PM EDT
Liam Foss (Ohio State), Spencer Christian (Ohio State)
Estimation of the Radiation Environment in Lunar Polar Regions Using Monte Carlo Methods
1:36–1:42PM EDT
Hiroki Iwamoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Additive Manufacturing of Complex Fuel Geometries for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
1:42–1:48PM EDT
Nathaniel Cavanaugh (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Jie Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
