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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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RIC session focuses on interagency collaboration
Attendees at last week’s 2026 Regulatory Information Conference, hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, saw extensive discussion of new reactor technologies, uprates, fusion, multiunit deployments, supply chain, and much more.
With the industry in a state of rapid evolution, there was much to discuss. Connected to all these topics was one central theme: the ongoing changes at the NRC. With massively shortened timelines, the ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300, and new interagency collaboration and authorization pathways in mind, speakers spent much of the RIC exploring what the road ahead looks like for the NRC.
Technical Session|Fusion and Plasma Physics
Friday, April 4, 2025|1:10–2:30PM MDT|Mirage/Thunderbird
Session Chair:
Shane M. Evans
Alternate Chair:
Jared Justice
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Solver for Liquid Metal Flow Channel Simulations
1:10–1:30PM MDT
Brandon Partee (Tennessee State), Yuqiao Fan (ORNL)
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Channel Width Analysis for Blanket Design In Fusion Reactors
1:30–1:50PM MDT
Jazzmarya K. Hamilton (Tennessee State), Monica Gehrig (ORNL)
Effects of Gas Feed on Plasma-Liquid Electrolysis for Nitrogen Fixation
1:50–2:10PM MDT
Emily Gillmore (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Brandon Kamiyama (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ali Eslamisaray (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), R. M. Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Low Temperature Plasma Synthesis of Boron Nitride Films on Arbitrary Substrates
2:10–2:30PM MDT
Adam Rousseau (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mohan Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Souvik Bhattacharya (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Matthew Confer (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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