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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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2025: The year in nuclear
As Nuclear News has done since 2022, we have compiled a review of the nuclear news that filled headlines and sparked conversations in the year just completed. Departing from the chronological format of years past, we open with the most impactful news of 2025: a survey of actions and orders of the Trump administration that are reshaping nuclear research, development, deployment, and commercialization. We then highlight some of the top news in nuclear restarts, new reactor testing programs, the fuel supply chain and broader fuel cycle, and more.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|8:00–9:45AM EST|Fantail
Session Chair:
Amy E. van der Vyver
Alternate Chair:
Benjamin Martin
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Safety Cases: Assumptions Versus Reality
8:00–8:20AM EST
James Rendell (National Nuclear Laboratory)
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Functional Classification of Criticality Safety Controls at the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility
8:20–8:40AM EST
Brittany M. Williamson (Spectra Tech)
Investigating Hydrogen Thermal Scattering Law Data with Critical Benchmarks
8:40–9:00AM EST
T.M. Greene (ORNL), W.J. Marshall (ORNL), C.W. Chapman (ORNL)
Evaluation of Thermal Neutron Scattering Cross Section of α-U3O8 with Ab Initio Lattice Dynamics
9:00–9:20AM EST
Junhyoung Gil (NCSU), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU)
An Approach to Obtaining the Best-Estimate keff for Uncertainty in ZPPR Plates
9:20–9:40AM EST
Veronica Karriem (ORNL), Douglas G. Bowen (ORNL)
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