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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS Winter Conference: DOE, NRC leaders stress need for speedier nuclear approval
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Chris Wright
During speeches at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference & Expo, happening this week in Washington, D.C., Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair David Wright both promised that the Trump administration will speed up nuclear reviews so the U.S. can maintain leadership in nuclear energy.
The DOE’s Wright took a stab at the NRC’s traditionally slow bureaucratic processes in approving primarily large light water reactors in the past, saying that the agency needs to speed up to meet the greater demand for new small modular reactors.
Panel and Technical Session|Nuclear Technology in Society and Education
Friday, April 14, 2023|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Student Union 362C
Session Chair:
John Mobley (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Brad Moore (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Education, Training, & Workforce Development Division.
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Simple Models of Historical Molten Salt Reactors
1:35–1:55PM EDT
David J. Anderson (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Public Engagement and Computational Activities Overview of Illinois Microreactor Demonstration Project
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Bella C. Pequette (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Silvana Tabares-Burgos (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
INL Animals and a Nanoindentation Model Example
2:15–2:35PM EDT
Gavin T. VandenBroeder (Oregon State), Tianyi Chen (Oregon State)
Study of Betavoltaic Cells and Their Potential Use Cases
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Gabriel H. Eilhardt (Oregon State)
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