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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 MSTD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Canaveral 2
Session Chair:
Simon M. Pimblott
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
Session Organizer:
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Corrosion Behaviors of SS316 in NaCl-KCl-UClx Salts
3:15–3:35PM EST
Jun Woo Park (KAIST), Jong-Il Yun (KAIST)
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Corrosion Performance of SPS Ni-Alloys in FLiNaK Salt
3:35–3:55PM EST
Gabriel Lewis (Univ. Idaho), Haiyan Zhao (Univ. Idaho), Djamel Kaoumi (NCSU)
Development of the Rotating Cylinder Electrode for Molten Salt Corrosion Measurement
3:55–4:15PM EST
Ranon Fuller (Brigham Young Univ.), Kaiden Exon (Brigham Young Univ.), Devin Rappleye (Brigham Young Univ.)
Zero-Dimensional Chemical Corrosion Model in Kairos Power's Advanced Systems Code
4:15–4:35PM EST
Samuel Richesson (Kairos Power), Sam Mossadeghian (Kairos Power), Haihua Zhao (Kairos Power)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Molten Salt Irradiation Flow Loop Detector Simulation
4:35–4:55PM EST
Seth Dayawansa (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin), Charles Forsberg (MIT), David Carpenter (MIT)
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