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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|10:00–11:45AM EST|Labrid A/B
Session Chair:
Leah Squires (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Harish Reddy Gadey (INL)
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Consideration on Safety Regulation and Technical Standards of Nuclear Fuel Cycles in Korea
10:00–10:20AM EST
Yong Ki Chi (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Daehyeon Kim (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
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The use of the High-Density UN Fuel in Heat-Pipe Microreactors -- The Impacts of 15N Enrichment on 14C Production
10:20–10:40AM EST
Cihang Lu (Brookhaven), Arantxa Cuadra (Brookhaven), Erofili Kardoulaki (LANL)
Estimation of Void Fraction History Using Post-Irradiation Fuel Isotopics
10:40–11:00AM EST
Tarikul Islam (Purdue Univ.), Shiming Yin (Purdue Univ.), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Germina Procop (ORNL), Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.)
Raman Spectroscopic Characterization of Tributyl/Dibutyl Phosphate Systems Toward Monitoring of Degradation in Solvent Extraction
11:00–11:20AM EST
Justin Cooper (INL), Jessica Meires (INL), Mathew Snow (INL)
Transmutation of Tc-99 and I-129 in the Ex-Core Region of a PWR
11:20–11:40AM EST
Stephen Pucci (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jonathan Wing (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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