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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
Monday, November 8, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Luca Podofillini (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Alternate Chair:
Gopika Vinod (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)
Session Producers:
John Greenwood
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Defining Dependency in HRA
10:10–10:40AM EST
Vincent P. Paglioni (Univ. of Maryland), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. of Maryland)
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Characterizing Human Performance: Detecting Targets at High False Alarm Rates.
10:40–11:10AM EST
Ann Speed (Sandia), Jason Wheeler (Sandia), John Russell (Sandia), Fred Oppel (Sandia), Danielle N. Sanchez (Sandia), Austin Silva (Sandia), Anna Chavez (Sandia)
Extracting Human Reliability Findings From Human Factors Studies in the Human Systems Simulation Laboratory
11:10–11:40AM EST
Heather Medema (INL), Jeremy Mohon (INL), Ronald Boring (INL)
Basis for Generic Approach to Human Failure Event Dependent Combination Identification
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
Don MacLeod (Jensen Hughes), Huafei Liao (X-Energy)
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