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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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Five companies, five bases: The Army’s Janus Program takes shape
Between the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses and Nuclear Energy Launch Pad programs, August has already been a busy month for federal partnerships with the nuclear industry.
That trend continues: On Wednesday, the Department of the Army announced that it has selected five nuclear reactor developers—Antares Nuclear, BWXT Advanced Technologies, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, Radiant Industries, and Westinghouse Government Services—each paired with a different military installation, for its Janus Program.
This week, the nuclear community descended on Dallas, Texas, for the second annual Nuclear Energy Conference and Expo, the premier industry-focused nuclear conference cohosted by the American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute. Among the plenary panelists was Jeff Waksman, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy, and environment. Waksman has been closely involved in the development of the Janus Program, and the morning before the program’s new selections were unveiled, he provided insights on its ultimate goals at NECX 2026.
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.)