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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Bowen to lead new Office of Advanced Reactors
Jeremy Bowen will head the newly created Office of Advanced Reactors when it launches in September, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Monday.
This new office will license and oversee new and advanced reactors. In his role, Bowen will be responsible for the review of advanced reactor applications—reviews that the NRC said will be “expeditious.”
Technical Session
Tuesday, October 7, 2025|1:00–2:40PM CDT|Cumberland South
Session Chair:
Nico Vollmer
Co-Chair:
Paul E. Cantonwine
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Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing at Framatome: From Material/Machine/Process Qualification to Serial Production of Nuclear Fuel Components
1:00–1:25PM CDT
Guillaume Badinier (Framatome), Didier Bardel (Framatome), Claude Simonot (Framatome), Stéphane Cachat (Framatome), Elmar Schweitzer (Framatome), Kevin Sohn (Framatome), Nate Schuyler (Framatome), Rémi-Paul Godier (Framatome)
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Specialized use of Additive Manufacturing Techniques to Prototype and Evaluate Next Generation Spacer Grids
1:25–1:50PM CDT
William Cleary (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Uffe Bergmann (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Oleksiy Riznychenko (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Edward Diloreto (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jacob Lydick (Penn United Technologies)
Industrialization of LEU+ Fuel Fabrication Capability
1:50–2:15PM CDT
Norman Garner (Framatome), Gannon Johnson (Framatome), Steven Cole (Framatome)
Joining Fuel Rod to End Cap with No Flaw. Repeatable.
2:15–2:40PM CDT
Paul Cheng (FuseRing Inc.)
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