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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.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Rotunda
Session Chair:
Jonghyun Kim
Alternate Chair:
Roberto Ponciroli
Session Organizer:
Lou Martinez Sancho
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Design of Operation Support System Under the Abnormal Situation in NPPs
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Younhee Choi (Chosun Univ.), Ji Hun Park (Chosun Univ.), Man Gyun Na (Chosun Univ.), Jonghyun Kim (Chosun Univ.)
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SPIDAR: System-Level Physics-Informed Detection of Anomalies in Reactors
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Ezgi Gursel (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Bhavya Reddy (San Jose State), Benjamin Smith (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Shahrbanoo Rezaei (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Katy Daniels (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie Baalis Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Mahboubeh Madadi (San Jose State), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Ronald Boring (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Anahita Khojandi (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Quantitative Estimation and Visualization of the Normal Operation Region for Power Transient Planning
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Haoyu Wang (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Thomas Elmer (ANL), Hubert Ley (ANL), Akshay J. Dave (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL)
Intelligent Early Warning Technique for Transient Recognition at Nuclear Power Plants
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Seo Ryong Koo (KAERI), Jaekwan Park (KAERI)
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