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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|8:00–9:40AM CDT|Salon A
Session Chair:
Zeses E. Karoutas
Co-Chair:
Walter G. Luscher
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An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Fission Gas Kr Speciation in Spent Nuclear Fuel by X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy and First-Principles Calculations
8:00–8:25AM CDT
Goutam Kuri (Paul Scherrer Institute), Johannes Bertsch (Paul Scherrer Institute)
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A Microstructurally Informed Model of High Burnup Structure in UO2 Fuel
8:25–8:50AM CDT
W. Cade Brinkley (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Lauryn Reyes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nathan Capps (ORNL), Brian Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Lower-length-scale Informed Mechanistic Models to Predict Creep Rates in UO2 Fuel
8:50–9:15AM CDT
Conor O.T. Galvin (LANL), Anton J. Schneider (LANL), Pieterjan Robbe (Sandia), David A. Andersson (LANL), Michael W. D. Cooper (LANL)
Kinetic Impact of Irradiation Defects on Fuel Thermal Conductivity: Modelling and Uncertainty
9:15–9:40AM CDT
Antoine Boulore (CEA), Guillaume Damblin (CEA), Stéphane Bernaud (CEA)
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