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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.
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
Thank you for participating in the 2025 ANS Annual Conference and the 19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025) / Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology Conference (NPIC&HMIT 2025)!
The Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025) Proceedings are now available to all who registered for the conference. Access to the proceedings is linked to the account you used to register for the conference.
You can also access the Proceedings by logging in to the ANS website. Then:
Honorary Chairs
General Chair
Calling all students to submit papers to the 2025 NPIC&HMIT conference in Chicago! Papers for which the Primary Author is a student are eligible for a cash prize. You are considered a student if you were enrolled as a student while the work was completed and are giving the presentation as a current student or within 12 months of completing your degree. Please consider submitting a student paper and identifying it as such in the paper submission system. See you in Chicago!
You are invited to submit your work for a special issue of the ANS journal Nuclear Technology. Click the + for more information.
NPIC&HMIT 2025 call for journal papers
NPIC&HMIT 2025 has partnered with the ANS journal Nuclear Technology (NT) to publish a special issue of papers derived from the conference.
**Submission window: open now with a deadline of September 15, 2025.
Details:
Submit to NT. Please select “NPIC&HMIT 2025” from the list of special issues.
Questions? Email nt@ans.org.
Alternatively, should you choose not to pursue journal publication, we invite you to consider submitting to the ANS online platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR). NSTOR welcomes submissions where authors prefer, or funders require, a fully open publication venue for research articles, and/or where authors would like to submit article types not typically supported by archival journals (e.g., brief reports, method articles, data notes, posters/presentations). NSTOR is fully open access and has publication charges dependent upon article type; although, these fees are 50% discounted if submitting before December 31, 2025.
Submit to NSTOR – Questions? Email nstor@ans.org.
Thank you again for attending NPIC&HMIT 2025, and we hope you participate in this special issue opportunity!
Our very best,
Fan ZhangNPIC&HMIT 2025 publications chair; special issue guest editor
Dr. Yassin HassanEditor-in-chief, Nuclear Technology
Wes Hines (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Ted Quinn (Paragon Energy Solutions)
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