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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Mike Kramer: Navigating power deals in the new data economy
Mike Kramer has a background in finance, not engineering, but a combined 20 years at Exelon and Constellation and a key role in the deals that have Meta and Microsoft buying power from Constellation’s Clinton and Crane sites have made him something of a nuclear expert.
Kramer spoke with Nuclear News staff writer Susan Gallier in late August, just after a visit to Clinton in central Illinois to celebrate a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Meta that closed in June. As Constellation’s vice president for data economy strategy, Kramer was part of the deal-making—not just the celebration.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|10:15AM–12:00PM EST|Georgetown East
Session Chair:
Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu
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Development of the Sodium-cooled Thermal-spectrum Advanced Research Test Reactor (STARTR) Model
10:15–10:35AM EST
Travis Lange (INL), Thomas Folk (Idaho National Laboratory - National Reactor Innovation Center)
Paper
Comparison of the Reactivity Model to a Jump in Equilibrium Method for Micro-Pebble-Bed High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors
10:35–10:55AM EST
Donald L. Doyle (University of Tennessee), Nicholas R. Brown (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Flux Decomposition in a Molten Salt Reactor
10:55–11:15AM EST
Sree Gudala (University of Texas at Austin), Benjamin Collins (The University of Texas at Austin), Kevin Clarno (The University of Texas at Austin)
Enhanced Neutronics Analysis of HFIR LEU Optimized Fuel Design via Improved PHAME Framework
11:15–11:35AM EST
Yves Robert (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Impact of Spatial Mesh Resolution on Beryllium Poison Production and End-of-Cycle Reactivity in HFIR
11:35–11:55AM EST
Kevin Burg (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), David Chandler (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL)
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