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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC approves TerraPower construction permit
Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has approved TerraPower’s construction permit application for Kemmerer Unit 1, the company’s first deployment of Natrium, its flagship sodium fast reactor.
This approval is a significant milestone on three fronts. For TerraPower, it represents another step forward in demonstrating its technology. For the Department of Energy, it reflects progress (despite delays) for the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). For the NRC, it is the first approval granted to a commercial reactor in nearly a decade—and the first approval of a commercial non–light water reactor in more than 40 years.
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 9, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
Stephen Unwin (PNNL)
Alternate Chair:
David Grabaskas (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Model-Based Decomposition and Backtracking Framework for Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Automated Vehicle Systems
12:40–1:10PM EST
Linda Capito (The Ohio State Univ.), Keith Redmill (The Ohio State Univ.), Umit Ozguner (Oztech)
Paper
Quantification of Mission Reliability for Urban Air Mobility Quadcopter Using Dynamic Event Trees
1:10–1:40PM EST
Gulcin Sarici Turkmen (The Ohio State Univ.), Tunc Aldemir (The Ohio State Univ.), Srujal A. Patel (Georgia Institute of Technology), Matilde D'Arpino (The Ohio State Univ.), Etienne Demers Bouchard (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jonathan C. Gladin (Georgia Institute of Technology), Cedric Y. Justin (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Safety Assessment of the Novel Distributed/Hybrid Electric Propulsion Architectures for Urban Air Mobility Vehicles
1:40–2:10PM EST
Eddie Li (Georgia Institute of Technology), Srujal A. Patel (Georgia Institute of Technology), Matilde D'Arpino (The Ohio State Univ.), Metin F. Ozcan (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jonathan C. Gladin (Georgia Institute of Technology), Cedric Y. Justin (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dimitri Mavris (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Analysis of Frequency of Aircraft Impact From Overflights (This paper has been cancelled).
2:10–2:40PM EST
James C. Lin (ABSG Consulting)
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