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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Getting back to yes: A local perspective on decommissioning, restart, and responsibility
For 45 years, Duane Arnold Energy Center operated in Linn County, Ia., near the town of Palo and just northwest of Cedar Rapids. The facility, owned by NextEra Energy, was the only nuclear power plant in the state.
In August 2020, a historic derecho swept across eastern Iowa with winds approaching 140 miles per hour. Damage to the plant’s cooling towers accelerated a shutdown that had already been planned, and the facility entered decommissioning soon after, with its fuel removed in October of that year. Iowa’s only nuclear plant had gone off line.
Today the national energy landscape looks very different than it did just six short years ago. Electricity demand is rising rapidly as data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and electrification expand across the country. Reliable, carbon-free baseload power has become increasingly valuable. In that context, Linn County has approved the rezoning necessary to support the recommissioning and restart of Duane Arnold and is actively supporting NextEra’s efforts to secure the remaining state and federal approvals.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Labrid A/B
Session Chair:
Kaushik Banerjee
Session Organizers:
Leah Squires (INL)
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A Numerical Model to Characterize Gas Flow in Complex Stress Corrosion Crack-Like Geometries
1:00–1:20PM EST
Jonah Lau (Purdue Univ.), Yadu Sasikumar (ORNL), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.), Rose Montgomery (ORNL)
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Machine Learning-Assisted Chemometrics for Concentration Detection from Linear Sweep Voltammetry Measurements
1:20–1:40PM EST
Alexandra Akins (ANL), Amber Polke (ANL), Steven DelaCruz (ANL), Nathan Hoyt (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
AI-Assisted Core Design and Optimization for Boiling Water Reactors
1:40–2:00PM EST
M.J. Mueterthies (Blue Wave AI Labs), M.R. Oktavian (Blue Wave AI Labs), M. Berardi (Blue Wave AI Labs), A. Tunga (Blue Wave AI Labs), S. Banerjee (Blue Wave AI Labs), P. McCalley (Blue Wave AI Labs), J. Heim (Blue Wave AI Labs), J.T. Gruenwald (Blue Wave AI Labs), J. Nistor (Blue Wave AI Labs), A. Kankkunen (Blue Wave AI Labs)
Modeling Separation of Actinides from Fission Products in a Zone Refining Process for Metallic Fuel Rods
2:00–2:20PM EST
Jonathan Dromey (Univ. Utah), Hayden Hansen (Univ. Utah), Ethan Rose (Univ. Utah), Tae-Sic Yoo (INL), Michael Simpson (Univ. Utah)
Reducing Spent Nuclear Fuel Radioactivity Through Medical Application
2:20–2:40PM EST
Nathaniel J. Cross (NCSU)
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