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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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RIC panel discusses pathway to fusion commercialization
Fusion leaders at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual Regulatory Information Conference discussed the path forward for regulating the burgeoning fusion industry. The speakers discussed government and private industry initiatives in the United States and United Kingdom, with a focus on efforts shaping the near-term deployment of commercial fusion machines.
A recurring theme was the need to explain the difference between fission and fusion. Representatives from the Department of Energy and Type One Energy highlighted this as an important distinction for regulators, as it will allow fusion to undergo its own independent maturation process for developing standards and regulations in the same way that fission has. Lea Perlas, Fusion Program director at the Virginia Department of Health, said that confusion between fission and fusion has been a common cause for misplaced concerns among community members surrounding Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ proposed fusion plant site near Richmond, Va.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Biscayne 3
Session Chair:
Dean Wang
Alternate Chair:
Sebastian Schunert
Session Organizer:
Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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Preliminary Steady-State Thermal Hydraulics Analysis of Mixed HEU-LEU Transition Cores for the MIT Research Reactor with Statistical Uncertainty Propagation Using STAT7 Code
1:00–1:20PM EST
Sero Yang (ANL), Tyler Sumner (ANL), Alberto Talamo (ANL), Kyle Anderson (ANL), David Jaluvka (ANL), John Stillman (ANL), Dhongik Yoon (ANL), Walid Mohamed (ANL), Lin-wen Hu (MIT), Erik Wilson (ANL)
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Interpretable Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Critical Heat Flux
1:20–1:40PM EST
Elvan Sahin (Virginia Tech), Juliana P. Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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