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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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RIC session focuses on interagency collaboration
Attendees at last week’s 2026 Regulatory Information Conference, hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, saw extensive discussion of new reactor technologies, uprates, fusion, multiunit deployments, supply chain, and much more.
With the industry in a state of rapid evolution, there was much to discuss. Connected to all these topics was one central theme: the ongoing changes at the NRC. With massively shortened timelines, the ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300, and new interagency collaboration and authorization pathways in mind, speakers spent much of the RIC exploring what the road ahead looks like for the NRC.
Technical Session
Tuesday, October 7, 2025|3:15–4:55PM CDT|Salon A
Session Chair:
Shinichiro Yamashita
Co-Chair:
Nico Vollmer
Session Organizer:
Peter R. Diller
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GNF4 BWR Fuel Design
3:15–3:40PM CDT
Weston Cundiff (Global Nuclear Fuel), Christopher Sedota (Global Nuclear Fuel), Jason Ingraham (Global Nuclear Fuel)
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Framatome VVER-440 and VVER-1000 Fuel Assembly Developments: Project Targets and Outline of Development Methodology
3:40–4:05PM CDT
Pascal Blanc (Framatome), Guy Gentet (Framatome SAS), Dounia Lhachemi (Framatome SAS), Marco Messingschlager (Framatome)
Extended Fuel Cycle Sensitivity Studies of the GE BWRX-300 Design
4:05–4:30PM CDT
John Monaghan (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Framatome Fuel Portfolio for Light Water based SMRs
4:30–4:55PM CDT
Alice Dufresne (Framatome SAS), David Breeding (Framatome), Elisa Calvo Tone (Framatome)
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