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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
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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