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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.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Plenary Session|Panel
Monday, November 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Crystal A
Session Chairs:
Bao-Wen Yang (Delta Energy Group, New York DEGNY/GDES)
Dave Pointer (ORNL)
This special plenary panel session aims to foster inter-society exchanges with a particular emphasis on diversity and inclusion. The session will feature chairs or representatives from various international thermal hydraulic divisions and organizations, who will discuss and explore key topics such as international collaboration, membership promotion, diversity, and inclusion.
The session will also include brief introductions of individual societies, including the newly established European Thermal Hydraulics Community (ETHC), which has been approved under the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP). Additionally, this plenary session seeks to establish closer partnerships and collaborations in organizing meetings, providing reviewers, and exchanging information.
Other potential subjects of discussion include, but are not limited to:
Igor Bolotnov
NCSU
Kiyong Choi
South Korea, KNS THD
Tomio Okawa
Japan, AESJ, THD
Ferry Roelofs
Europe, ETHC
Canada
TBD
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