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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
Thursday, November 11, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Tatsuya Sakurahara (U Illinois)
Alternate Chair:
Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang Univ)
Session Producer:
Sam Brewer
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Belgian Spent Fuel Pool Internal Events PSA
10:10–10:40AM EST
Filip Van Opstal (Tractebel ENGIE), Bogdan Golovchuk (Tractebel ENGIE)
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Belgian Spent Fuel Pool Internal Hazards PSA
10:40–11:10AM EST
Bogdan Golovchuk (Tractebel ENGIE), Filip Van Opstal (Tractebel ENGIE)
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Development of Level 1 Internal Event Single-Unit PSA Models for Multi-Unit Risk Profiles
11:10–11:40AM EST
Kibeom Son (Kyung Hee Univ.), Gyunyoung Heo (Kyung Hee Univ.), Ji Suk Kim (Chung-Ang Univ.), Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang Univ.), Gayoung Park (Chosun Univ.), Jonghyun Kim (Chosun Univ.), Meejeong Hwang (KAERI), Moosung Jae (Hanyang Univ.)
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Methodological and Computational Developments for Fire Scenario Selection and Analysis in Fire PRA of Nuclear Power Plants
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
Sari Alkhatib (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Seyed Reihani (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Ernest Kee (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Brian Ratte (South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Co.), Kristin Kaspar (South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Co.), Mary Ann Billings (South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Co.), Sean Hunt (Jensen Hughes)
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