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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|2:50–4:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Matt Degonish (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
Yunfei Zhao (OSU)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Use of Machine Learning to Evaluate Maintenance Rule Functional Failures at Exelon
2:50–3:20PM EST
Stephen M. Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jonathan L. Hodges (Jensen Hughes), Jenna M. Burr (Exelon Generation), Scott W. Diven (Exelon Generation)
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Fault Tree Generation From P&IDs Using Deep Learning
3:20–3:50PM EST
Jaydeep Thik (Ohio State Univ.), Xiaoxu Diao (Ohio State Univ), Pavan Kumar Vaddi (Ohio State Univ.), Carol Smidts (Ohio State Univ.)
Integration of Data Analytics With System Health Programs
3:50–4:20PM EST
D. Mandelli (INL), C. Wang (INL), S. Hess (Jensen Hughes), R. Sugrue (Jensen Hughes), D. Morton (Northwestern Univ.), I. Popova (Texas State Univ.), C. Pope (Idaho State Univ.), J. Miller (Idaho State Univ.), S. Ercanbrack (Idaho State Univ.), D. Cole (Univ. of Pittsburgh), J. Yurko (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Use of Data Analytics to Evaluate Nuclear Plant Maintenance Historical Data
4:20–4:50PM EST
Stephen M. Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jonathan L. Hodges (Jensen Hughes), Stefan M. Kraft (Jensen Hughes), David Olack (EPRI), Jeff Greene (EPRI)
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