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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Texas opens $350M in nuclear funding
Three years ago, the Texas Public Utility Commission launched the Advanced Nuclear Reactor Working Group at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott. One year later, that new group issued a report recommending several actions to the Texas legislature that could be taken to attract new nuclear projects to the state.
Included in those recommendations were the foundation of a nonregulatory entity to coordinate Texas’s “strategic nuclear vision” along with an advanced nuclear fund to help “overcome the funding valley project developers face” in the state.
Technical Session|Lightning Talks
Friday, April 5, 2024|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Hallowell Nuclear Innovation Commons
Session Chair:
Erik Hisahara (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Aamer Bashir (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Investigating Molten Salt Corrosion: A ReaxFF Molecular Dynamics Study
1:35–1:45PM EDT
Daniel H. Flynn (Penn State), Hamdy Arkoub (Penn State)
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Implementation of Radiation in Cardinal Single Pebble Model for Low Flow Accident Scenarios
1:45–1:55PM EDT
Michael J. Seneca (Penn State), Haomin Yuan (ANL), Luiz C. Aldeia (Penn State), David Reger (Penn State), Tri Nguyen (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Economic Analysis of a Fusion Fission Hybrid System
1:55–2:05PM EDT
Virginia Lilly (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Matthew Nyberg (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
X-ray-Triggered Dual-Response in Lanthanum-Doped LaPO4 Nanoparticles for Enhanced Radiotherapy
2:05–2:15PM EDT
Santiago Bermudez Naranjo (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Predicting Solution Color in Solvent Extraction Using Machine Learning and Non-Traditional Sensor Measurements
2:15–2:25PM EDT
Omobolade A. Odedoyin (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Edna Cardenas (INL), Luis Ocampo Giraldo (INL), Mitchell R. Greenhalgh (INL), Jay D. Hix (INL), Camas M. Walker (INL), James T. Johnson (INL), Katherine Wilsdon (INL)
Machine Learning Optimization for the Monte Carlo Particle Simulation of an NDA Technique
2:25–2:35PM EDT
Nelson H. Snow (Idaho State), Christopher Reynolds (GE Vernova Advanced Research)
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