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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 HFICD
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|10:15AM–12:00PM EST|International Ballroom West
Session Chair:
Duy-Thien Nguyen
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Lagrangian-Eulerian Simulations of Fission Particle Transport in a Full-Scale Ventilation Duct in Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities
10:15–10:35AM EST
Duy-Thien Nguyen (US DOE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William McCarter (US DOE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Joanna McFarlane (ORNL), Scott Nelson (US DOE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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In Situ High-Resolution Gamma Ray Spectroscopy for Assessment of Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities Off-Gas Ventilation
10:35–10:55AM EST
JungHyun Bae (ORNL), David Glasgow (ORNL), William McCarter (ORNL), Duy-Thien Nguyen (US DOE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
LSTM Autoencoder-based Multivariate Prediction for SMR Parameter Trends
10:55–11:15AM EST
Donghee Jung (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Junyong Bae (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Theoretical Foundations of Localized Perturbation Sensitivity in Real-Time Surrogates for Digital Twins
11:15–11:35AM EST
Samrendra Roy (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Souvik Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Sajedul Talukder (Univ. Texas, El Paso), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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