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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections
Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050—reaching 2.6 times the 2024 level—with small modular reactors expected to play a pivotal role in this high-case scenario.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi announced the new projections, contained in the annual report Energy, Electricity, and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2050 at the 69th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
In the report’s high-case scenario, nuclear electrical generating capacity is projected to increase to from 377 GW at the end of 2024 to 992 GW by 2050. In a low-case scenario, capacity rises 50 percent, compared with 2024, to 561 GW. SMRs are projected to account for 24 percent of the new capacity added in the high case and for 5 percent in the low case.
Technical Session
Monday, May 16, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM EDT|Fountainview
Session Chair:
Brendan M. Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL)
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Transient Analysis of a Micro-Reactor Using the DireWolf Code Suite
Nathan Roskoff (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Vefa Kucukboyaci (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Alex Levinsky (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Vincent Laboure (INL), Jackson Harter (INL), Adam Zabriskie (INL), Lise Charlot (INL)
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XE-100 Modeling and Simulation for Neutronic Analysis in MCNP6.2
Austin Carter (INL), Travis Lange (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL), Sonat Sen (X-Energy), Raymond Wang (X-Energy)
Multiphysics Analysis System for Heat Pipe Cooled Micro Reactors Employing PRAGMA-OpenFOAM-ANLHTP
Jaeuk Im (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Myung Jin Jeong (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Namjae Choi (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Kyung Min Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Han Gyu Joo (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Hyoung Kyu Cho (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Stability Margin Analysis of the Holos-Quad Microreactor Design
Shai Kinast (Nuclear Research Center Negev), Claudio Filippone (HolosGen), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
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