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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC approves TerraPower construction permit
Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has approved TerraPower’s construction permit application for Kemmerer Unit 1, the company’s first deployment of Natrium, its flagship sodium fast reactor.
This approval is a significant milestone on three fronts. For TerraPower, it represents another step forward in demonstrating its technology. For the Department of Energy, it reflects progress (despite delays) for the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). For the NRC, it is the first approval granted to a commercial reactor in nearly a decade—and the first approval of a commercial non–light water reactor in more than 40 years.
Technical Session
Tuesday, July 23, 2024|10:00–11:50AM CDT|Senate A/B
Session Chair:
Jonathan E. Menard
Alternate Chair:
Ben Lindley
Session Organizer:
Arnold Lumsdaine
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Design Point and Optimization of a General Fusion Magnetized Target Fusion Power Plant
10:00–10:25AM CDT
Daymon Krotez (General Fusion), Raphael Segas (General Fusion), Ivan Khalzov (General Fusion)
Presented by Michel Laberge (General Fusion)
Paper
Pre-Conceptual Neutronics and Shielding Assessment of a Beam-Driven Tokamak Volumetric Neutron Source
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Dieter Leichtle (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Roman Afanasenko (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Christian Bachmann (EUROfusion), Pierluigi Chiovaro (Univ. Palermo), Aljaz Cufar (Jožef Stefan Institute), Gianfranco Federici (EUROfusion), Thomas Franke (EUROfusion), Ivo Moscato (EUROfusion), Jin Hun Park (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Pavel Pereslavtsev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Alex Valentine (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
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The Advanced Tokamak Fusion Pilot Plant: An Optimized and Integrated Conceptual Design
10:50–11:10AM CDT
D.B. Weisberg (General Atomics), T. Akiyama (General Atomics), P. Beharrel (General Atomics), S. Ding (General Atomics), G. Dose (General Atomics), N. Eidietis (General Atomics), A.M. Garofalo (General Atomics), A. Ghiozzi (Oak Ridge Associated Universities), B.A. Grierson (General Atomics), J. Guterl (General Atomics), J. Harvery (General Atomics), A. Hennessey (General Atomics), A. Leonard (General Atomics), J. Leuer (General Atomics), B. Lyons (General Atomics), R. Maurizio (General Atomics), O. Meneghini (General Atomics), P. Mijatovic (General Atomics), R. Raffray (General Atomics), N. Shi (General Atomics), T. Slendebroek (Oak Ridge Associated Universities), M. Tillack (General Atomics), A. Xing (General Atomics)
Project Century: Zap Energy's 100 kW-Scale Repetitive Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z-Pinch System with Liquid Metal Cooling
11:10–11:30AM CDT
M.C. Thompson (Zap Energy), V. Nalajala (Zap Energy), B. Kelleher (Zap Energy), S. Brantley (Zap Energy), C. Parga (Zap Energy), A. Cheung (Zap Energy), M. Aubuchon (Zap Energy), B.A. Nelson (Zap Energy), B. Maynard (Zap Energy), J. Beers (Zap Energy), C. Ying (Zap Energy), J. Stuber (Zap Energy), T. Schwartz (Zap Energy), G. Staines (Zap Energy), S. Gagnon (Zap Energy), M. Acks (Zap Energy), S. Ashrun (Zap Energy), S. Bagdy (Zap Energy), A. Basile (Zap Energy), B. Beers (Zap Energy), K. Blackwell (Zap Energy), H. Blanck (Zap Energy), F. Caliari (Zap Energy), H. Carlson (Zap Energy), M. Christenson (Zap Energy), T. Connolly (Zap Energy), S. Cortez (Zap Energy), J. Costa-Greger (Zap Energy), H. Grover (Zap Energy), C. Hansen (Zap Energy), K. Hatfield (Zap Energy), S. Huotilainen (Zap Energy), S. Jurovich (Zap Energy), S. Korlann (Zap Energy), S. Muniyalkrishna (Zap Energy), M. Parry (Zap Energy), W. Pauley (Zap Energy), B. Pedler (Zap Energy), T. Rhodes (Zap Energy), D. Sanabria (Zap Energy), W. Schoenthal (Zap Energy), Z. Toth (Zap Energy), N. Tripp (Zap Energy), B. Wakefield (Zap Energy), B. Watson (Zap Energy), C. Zehner (Zap Energy)
Approach to Startup Inventory for Viable Commercial Fusion Power Plant
11:30–11:50AM CDT
Collin R. Malone (SRNL), Holly B. Flynn (SRNL), Alex D. Somers (SRNL), P. Arron Rowell (SRNL), George K. Larsen (SRNL)
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