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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Bipartisan bill aims to promote nuclear fusion development
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Sens. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.) and John Curtis (R., Utah) have introduced a bill that would enable nuclear fusion energy technologies to have access to the federal advanced manufacturing production tax credit.
The companion version of the bill was introduced in the House by Reps. Carol Miller (R., W.Va.), Suzan DelBene (D., Wash.), Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.), and Don Beyer (D., Va.)
The Fusion Advanced Manufacturing Parity Act extends the federal advanced manufacturing production credit (45X) by adding a 25 percent tax credit for companies that are domestically manufacturing fusion energy components.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Sean Fournier is a nuclear engineer in the Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Incident Response Program (NIRP). He received his MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 2018. Sean started his career in 2010 working in the radiochemistry laboratory at Sandia. Sean has participated in several inter-agency working groups on nuclear incident response preparedness; most notably, the Department of Energy’s Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC) Laboratory Analysis Working Group. This group is responsible for determining the methods, procedures, and training for sample control and analysis during a national-scale nuclear emergency. Sean is the current skillset leader for the Consequence Management Laboratory Analysis Unit and works toward maintaining readiness of the responders and the technology used by the team.
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