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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC posts hearing request notice for Belews Creek ESP application
An opportunity to request an adjudicatory hearing for Duke Energy Carolinas’ early site permit (ESP) application for the Belews Creek site in Stokes County, N.C., has been announced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The notice of the opportunity was published February 9 in the Federal Register. The deadline to file a request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene is April 10, 2026.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|1:00–2:45PM EST|Cardozo
Session Chair:
Qi Heng Law
Alternate Chair:
Charles Forsberg
Session Organizer:
William N. Mann
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Nuclear Heat Storage for Ancillary Services Including Grid Stabilization
1:00–1:20PM EST
Charles W. Forsberg (MIT), John Parsons (MIT)
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A Parametric Comparison of Pillow-Plate and Helical Coil Exchangers for Pumped Thermal Energy Storage
1:20–1:40PM EST
Blayne Gibson (Kansas State), Ross Brown (Kansas State University), Cory Stansbury (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Anna Iskhakova (KSU)
Cost Analysis of Nuclear Energy Integrated Large-Scale Solid Oxide Electrolysis Plants
1:40–2:00PM EST
Jacob H. Prosser (Strategic Analysis, Inc.), Micah J. Casteel (INL), Tyler L. Westover (INL)
Evaluating Thermal Impact of Loss of Intermediate Fluid for Hydrogen Producing Molten Chloride Fast Reactor Integrated Energy System
2:00–2:20PM EST
Emily Meilus (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Long-term Strategies for Powering data centers with Nuclear Energy: Hybrid Nuclear and Natural Gas Operation and Colocation with Data Centers
2:20–2:40PM EST
Paul R. Seurin (INL), Wen-Chi Cheng (INL), Jason K. Hansen (INL)
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