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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Getting back to yes: A local perspective on decommissioning, restart, and responsibility
For 45 years, Duane Arnold Energy Center operated in Linn County, Ia., near the town of Palo and just northwest of Cedar Rapids. The facility, owned by NextEra Energy, was the only nuclear power plant in the state.
In August 2020, a historic derecho swept across eastern Iowa with winds approaching 140 miles per hour. Damage to the plant’s cooling towers accelerated a shutdown that had already been planned, and the facility entered decommissioning soon after, with its fuel removed in October of that year. Iowa’s only nuclear plant had gone off line.
Today the national energy landscape looks very different than it did just six short years ago. Electricity demand is rising rapidly as data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and electrification expand across the country. Reliable, carbon-free baseload power has become increasingly valuable. In that context, Linn County has approved the rezoning necessary to support the recommissioning and restart of Duane Arnold and is actively supporting NextEra’s efforts to secure the remaining state and federal approvals.
Technical Session|Nuclear Fuels and Materials
Saturday, April 5, 2025|10:35–11:55AM MDT|Valle Grande 1
Session Chair:
Jared Justice
Alternate Chair:
Shane M. Evans
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Diffusion Barrier Coatings for Liquid Metal Corrosion Resistance in Next-Generation Nuclear Reactors
10:35–10:55AM MDT
Alexander A. Hromiak (Virginia Tech), Amanda Leong (Virginia Tech), Richard Fink (Applied Nanotech, Inc.), Jinsuo Zhang (Virginia Tech)
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Characterization of Compositionally Complex Alloys for Environmental Extremes
10:55–11:15AM MDT
Sicilia B. Christadore (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Sydney E. Copp (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Steven J. Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Additive Manufacturing of Medium and High Entropy Alloys Using Elemental and Alloy Powders
11:15–11:35AM MDT
Aaron M. Holzer (Univ. New Mexico), Jared A. Justice (Univ. New Mexico), Pankaj Kumar (Univ. New Mexico), Scott Halliday (Navajo Technical Univ.), Osman Anderoglu (Univ. New Mexico)
Electrochemical Corrosion Behavior of Cold Sprayed Alloy 625 (UNS-N06625) in Molten Chloride at 600 °C
11:35–11:55AM MDT
Mamata Adhikari (Univ. Idaho), Kavindan Balakrishnan (Univ. Idaho), Krishnan Raja (Univ. Idaho), Indrajit Charit (Univ. Idaho)
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