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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Labrid A/B
Session Chair:
Gerard Jackson
Alternate Chair:
Leah Squires (INL)
Session Organizers:
Harish Reddy Gadey
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A Historical Review of the Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel Through 2021
3:15–3:35PM EST
Kevin J. Connolly (ORNL)
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Open-Source Reactor-to-Repository Python Framework for Evaluating Spent Nuclear Fuel from Advanced Nuclear Reactors
3:35–3:55PM EST
Haruko Wainwright (MIT), Chloe Christiaen (Ecole Polytechnique), Milos I. Atz (Ultra Safe Nuclear), John Sebastian Tchakerian (MIT), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Gavin K. Ridley (MIT), Krishna Sunder (Univ. Chicago), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Potential Burnup Indicator Identification Based on Power History Decomposition
3:55–4:15PM EST
Shiming Yin (Purdue Univ.), Tarikul Islam (Purdue Univ.), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Germina Procop (ORNL), Hany Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.)
Update on Parallel Process Execution in the Next Generation System Analysis Model
4:15–4:35PM EST
H. Gadey (INL), R. Joseph (INL), B. Gutherman (Gutherman Technical Services), L. Vander Wal (ANL)
Presented by Kaushik Banerjee (INL)
Attachment — Kaushik Banerjee
Community Comments and Social Media Interactions as a Basis for Informing Consent-Based Siting of Spent Nuclear Fuel Facilities
4:35–4:55PM EST
Matthew S. Weber (Rutgers Univ.), Rachel Acosta (Rutgers Univ.), Megan Harkema (Vanderbilt Univ.), Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.)
