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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.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Thursday, July 20, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|Rotunda
Session Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell
Alternate Chair:
Nancy J. Lybeck
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Ultrasonic Assessment of Neutron Irradiated Concrete-Forming Aggregates
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Hongbin Sun (ORNL), Elena Tajuelo Rodriguez (ORNL), Jose Arregui Mena (ORNL), Yann Le Pape (ORNL), Thomas M. Rosseel (ORNL)
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Acceptance Criteria for Instrumentation and Control Cabling
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Patrick Ward (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Codi Ferree (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Elijah Connatser (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Casey Sexton (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
Presented by Adam Deatherage (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
Signal Processing of Multiplexed Optical PWM Signals for Sensor Arrays in Nuclear Environments
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Daniel C. Sweeney (ORNL), F. Kyle Reed (ORNL), K.C. Goetz (ORNL), N. Dianne Bull Ezell (ORNL)
Additively Manufactured Strain Sensing for Nuclear Reactor Applications
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Timothy L. Phero (Boise State), Kaelee A. Novich (Boise State), Kiyo T. Fujimoto (INL), Amey R. Khanolkar (INL), Benjamin C. Johnson (Boise State), Michael D. McMurtrey (INL), David Estrada (Boise State), Brian J. Jaques (Boise State)
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