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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections
Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050—reaching 2.6 times the 2024 level—with small modular reactors expected to play a pivotal role in this high-case scenario.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi announced the new projections, contained in the annual report Energy, Electricity, and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2050 at the 69th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
In the report’s high-case scenario, nuclear electrical generating capacity is projected to increase to from 377 GW at the end of 2024 to 992 GW by 2050. In a low-case scenario, capacity rises 50 percent, compared with 2024, to 561 GW. SMRs are projected to account for 24 percent of the new capacity added in the high case and for 5 percent in the low case.
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Student Union 362A|Session Chair: Noah Walton
Friday, April 14, 2023|10:15–11:35AM EDT
Friday, April 14, 2023|1:35–2:55PM EDT
Student Union 362C|Session Chair: Katy Worrell
Saturday, April 15, 2023|10:15–11:35AM EDT
Saturday, April 15, 2023|1:35–2:55PM EDT
Student Union 362B|Session Chair: Evan Williams
Student Union 262B|Session Chair: Promise Adebayo-Ige
Student Union 262B|Session Chair: Katie Butler
Saturday, April 15, 2023|3:10–4:30PM EDT
Student Union 362C|Session Chair: Mattia Zanotelli
Student Union 262A|Session Chair: Emma C. Houston
Student Union 262A|Session Chair: Lance M. Drouet
Student Union 262A|Session Chair: Evan Williams
Student Union 262A|Session Chair: Chris Busch
Student Union 262B|Session Chair: Jonathan Norman
Student Union 262B|Session Chair: Katie Karl
Friday, April 14, 2023|3:10–4:30PM EDT
Student Union 362C|Session Chair: John Mobley
Panel|Student Union 262C|Session Chair: Madeline L. Lockhart
Panel|Student Union 169|Session Chair: Kaitlyn Butler
Panel|Student Union 262C|Session Chair: Ivis F. Chaple Gore
Panel|Student Union 169|Session Chair: Nathan Ryan
Panel|Student Union 169|Session Chair: Jonathan D. Hartman
Panel|Student Union 262C|Session Chair: Amanda M. Bachmann
Panel|Student Union 169|Session Chair: Lane B. Carasik
Panel|Student Union 169|Session Chair: Lauryn Reyes
Panel|Student Union 169|Session Chair: Deborah Penchoff
Panel|Student Union 362C|Session Chair: Alyssa Hayes
Ballroom C|Session Chair: Lance M. Drouet
Saturday, April 15, 2023|10:30AM–1:00PM EDT
Saturday, April 15, 2023|1:35–4:15PM EDT
Student Union 362C|Session Chair: Evan Williams
Student Union 362B|Session Chair: Kate Joshi
Student Union 362B|Session Chair: Christian Young
Student Union 362A|Session Chair: Kate Joshi
Student Union 262C|Session Chair: Rida Rahman
Student Union 362A|Session Chair: Caleb Noe
Student Union 262A|Session Chair: Sean Kosslow
