Schedule Timeline

Schedule is subject to change

Thursday — November 12, 2026

3:00PM MST

Events

Student Sections Committee (Virtual)

Sunday — November 15, 2026

7:00AM MST

Events

Professional Divisions Committee (PDC)

8:00AM MST

Events

Conference, Proceedings & Transactions Committee (Hybrid)
National Program Committee - Screening (Hybrid)

10:00AM MST

Events

Accreditation Policy and Procedures Committee (Hybrid)
Isotopes and Radiation Executive Committee
Exhibit Setup

12:00PM MST

Events

Registration/Help Desk open from 2:00-7:00 pm

12:30PM MST

Events

Thermal Hydraulics Division Executive Committee

1:00PM MST

Events

Fuel Cycle Waste Management Executive Committee

2:00PM MST

Events

Accelerator Applications Division Committee (Hybrid)

3:00PM MST

Events

Exhibit Hall open from 5:00 pm-7:00 pm

Monday — November 16, 2026

5:00AM MST

Events

7:00AM MST

Events

ANS-31.1 - Standard for Testing and Facilities for Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion Reactors

9:00AM MST

Events

Materials Science & Technology Executive Committee (Hybrid)

10:00AM MST

Events

National Conference Committee (Hybrid)

11:00AM MST

Events

Safety and Radiological Analyses Consensus Committee (SRACC) (Hybrid)

12:00PM MST

Events

Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C)

1:00PM MST

Sessions

2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

Accelerator Applications in Industry and Security: I (Room 8)
Messaging to Match the Environment (Panel Room - Blue)
ANS Student Design Competition: I (Room 1)
Fuel Cycle and Waste Management: General (Room 2)
Fusion Science, Technology, and Policy: I (Room 4)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for I&C and Human Factors: I (Room 3)
Isotopes and Radiation: General I (Room 9 (Mon. 1 o'clock ONLY))
Transport Methods (Room 5)
Data, Analysis and Operations in Nuclear Criticality Safety: I (Room 6)
Hybrid and Integrated Energy Systems (Room 7)
Shaping the Future of Nuclear Robotics (Panel Room - Blue)
Rad Talk (Panel Room - Green)
Criticality and the Future of Nuclear Deployment (Panel Room - Green)

Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS 2026)

Design Basis T/H Analysis (Room 3)
Boolean Evaluation Tools, Methods, and Verifications: I (Room 1)
Developing and Achieving Targets for SSC Reliability and Capability (Room 2)

International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2026)

Portable and Propulsion Reactors (Room 1)
Fuel Cycle and Waste Management (Room 2)

1:15PM MST

Sessions

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2026)

NEAMS TH IRP: Thermal-Fluids Applications in Nuclear Energy (Room 3)
Thermal Hydraulics Summaries: Multiphase Flow Experiments (Room 2)
Thermal Hydraulics Summaries: Advanced Reactors (Room 4)
Enhancing the Interaction between Experiments and Simulations (Room 1)

2:00PM MST

Events

ANS-8.23 Working Group Nuclear Criticality Accident Emergency Planning and Response (Hybrid)

3:15PM MST

Sessions

2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

Accelerator Applications in Industry and Security: II (Room 7)
Uranium Mining Remediation: Past, Present, and Future (Panel Room - Blue)
ANS Student Design Competition: II (Room 1)
Advances in Fuel Recycle (Room 2)
Innovative Methods in SNF Disposal R&D (Room 2)
Advances in SNF Storage and Transportation and Aerosol Source Terms Estimation (Room 2)
Molten Salt Reactor Fuels and Materials (Room 4)
Computational Methods and Mathematical Modeling: I (Room 5)
Recent NCSP Technical Accomplishments (Room 6)
Science, Technology, and Policy Advances in Nuclear Safeguards (Room 3)
Quantum Computing for the Nuclear Industry (Panel Room - Blue)
Advanced Reactor Methods (Room 8)
How I Built My Network (Panel Room - Green)
Fusion: The Hype vs. The Hope (Panel Room - Green)

Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS 2026)

Reliability Databases and Parameter Estimations (Room 1)
Risk-Informed and Performance-Based Approaches (Room 2)

3:30PM MST

Events

NURETH-22 Organizing Committee

5:00PM MST

Events

Christian Nuclear Fellowship

Tuesday — November 17, 2026

5:00AM MST

Events

7:00AM MST

Events

ANS-31.1 Working Group Testing and Facilities for Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion Reactors (Hybrid)

8:00AM MST

Sessions

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2026)

Multiphysics-Coupled Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis Methods (Room 3)
Thermal Hydraulics of Severe Accidents (Room 4)
Thermal Hydraulics Summaries: RBHT Experiments and Analysis (Room 2)
Modernizing System Codes for Advanced Reactor Applications (Room 1)

Events

Standards Board

10:00AM MST

Sessions

2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

Education, Training, and Workforce Development: General I (Room 1)
Molten Salt Fuel Chemistry: I (Room 2)
Digital Technologies for Plant Operation and Maintenance (Room 3)
Advanced Instrumentation & Control R&D under DOE-NE ARSS Program (Panel Room - Blue)
Space Reactor Instrumentation and Controls (Panel Room - Blue)
Isotopes and Radiation: General II (Room 4)
Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis, and Machine Learning: I (Room 5)
Data, Analysis and Operations in Nuclear Criticality Safety: II (Room 6)
Maritime Applications (Room 7)
Nuclear Energy for Digital Infrastructure: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities (Panel Room - Green)
Reactor Analysis: General I (Room 8)
Reactors Meet Hyperscalers: How can we make colocation work? (Panel Room - Green)

International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2026)

Reactor Physics I (Room 1)
Operation, Performance, and Reliability Management (Room 2)

Events

UNLP Student Meet & Greet
National Program Committee (Hybrid)

11:00AM MST

Sessions

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2026)

AI & ML Assisted Modeling and Simulation (Room 3)
Young Professionals Research Competition: I (Room 4)
Thermal Hydraulics Summaries: General Thermal Hydraulics (Room 2)
Time at Temperature (Room 1)

1:00PM MST

Sessions

2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

Radiation Effects and Related Applications: I (Room 5)
Office of Nuclear Energy Supported Student Presentations: I (Room 1)
Molten Salt Fuel Chemistry: II (Room 2)
Large Language Models and Foundation Models for Nuclear (Room 3)
Advanced Simulation Techniques for Nuclear Materials: I (Room 4)
Nuclear Security, Proliferation Resistance, and Physical Protection (Room 6)
Advanced Nuclear Reactors and Power Systems: I (Room 7)
Pathways to a Massive Nuclear Deployment in the United States (Panel Room - Green)
Advanced Reactor Analysis: I (Room 8)
Making an Early Impact in Setting Nuclear Standards and Regulations (Panel Room - Blue)
Nuclear Energy Development in Europe (Panel Room - Green)
Changes in Nuclear Risk Regulation (Panel Room - Blue)

Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS 2026)

Boolean Evaluation Tools, Methods, and Verifications: II (Room 1)
Selection Approach’s for Seismic Design Criteria for Nuclear Installations (Room 2)

International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2026)

Reactor Physics II (Room 1)

1:15PM MST

Sessions

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2026)

Fundamental Thermal Hydraulics (Room 3)
Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods (Room 1)
Molten-Salt Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (Room 2)
Young Professionals Research Competition: II (Room 4)

3:15PM MST

Sessions

2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

Radiation Effects and Related Applications: II (Room 2)
The NEPA Umbrella is Shrinking: Staying Dry in a Changing Environmental Review Landscape (Panel Room - Green)
Education, Training, and Workforce Development: General II (Room 1)
Online Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Prognostics (Room 3)
From Development to Deployment: Digital Twins for University Research Reactors (Panel Room - Blue)
Advanced Simulation Techniques for Nuclear Materials: II (Room 4)
Computational Methods and Mathematical Modeling: II (Room 5)
Critical and Subcritical Experiments: I (Room 6)
Towards Digital Twins for Nuclear Safeguards (Panel Room - Blue)
Advanced Nuclear Reactors and Power Systems: II (Room 7)
AI-Assisted Reactor Analysis (Room 8)

Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS 2026)

Modeling of Passive Systems and Inherent Safety (Room 2)
Mechanistic Source Terms (Room 1)

International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2026)

Reactor Physics III (Room 1)

Wednesday — November 18, 2026

5:00AM MST

Events

Registration/Help Desk open from 7:00 am-5:00 pm

6:00AM MST

Sessions

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2026)

System Thermal Hydraulics Methods (Room 4)
General AI & ML Applications in Thermal-Hydraulics (Room 3)
Thermal Hydraulics Abstracts: Experiments and Analysis (Room 2)
LOCA Rule Making (Room 1)

7:00AM MST

Events

Fuel, Waste, and Decommissioning Consensus Committee (FWDCC)

8:00AM MST

Sessions

2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

Isotope Production and Medical Applications (Room 5)
Automation and AI/ML Applications in Fuel Cycle and Waste Management (Room 2)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for I&C and Human Factors: II (Room 3)
Toward Community-Driven Foundation Models for Predictive Molten Salt Chemistry (Panel Room - Blue)
Environmental Degradation of Materials: I (Room 4)
Data, Analysis and Operations in Nuclear Criticality Safety: III (Room 6)
Nuclear Energy Markets, Financing, and Economics: I (Room 7)
Reactor Physics Methods (Room 8)
Deploying Robots Across the Nuclear Landscape: I (Room 1)
Meeting the Modern Nuclear Energy Workforce Challenges (Panel Room - Green)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2026)

Novel System Code Development (Room 3)
Thermal Hydraulics Summaries: Multiphase Flow Modeling (Room 2)
Transition to GPU Computing and beyond (Room 1)

International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2026)

Nuclear Power Plants I (Room 1)
Fuels, Materials, and Structures (Room 2)

10:00AM MST

Sessions

2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

Nuclear Maritime (Panel Room - Blue)
Office of Nuclear Energy Supported Student Presentations: II (Room 1)
Cybersecurity in Wireless Technologies, Digital I&C, Digital Twins, and Human Factors (Room 3)
Environmental Degradation of Materials: II (Room 4)
Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis, and Machine Learning: II (Room 5)
Critical and Subcritical Experiments: II (Room 6)
Nuclear Installations Safety: General I (Room 8)
Nuclear Energy Markets, Financing, and Economics: II (Room 7)
Radiation Protection and Shielding: General (Room 2)
Bridging Generations in the Nuclear Workforce (Panel Room - Green)

Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS 2026)

Uncertainty Quantification (Room 1)
Bounding Site Approaches (Room 2)

International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2026)

Nuclear Power Plants II (Room 1)

11:00AM MST

Sessions

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2026)

Gas-Cooled Reactor Thermal Hydraulics: I (Room 3)
Thermal Hydraulics Summaries: Systems Codes (Room 4)
Thermal Hydraulics Abstracts: General (Room 2)
Light Water SMRs (Room 1)

Events

Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities Consensus Committee (NRNFCC)

1:00PM MST

Sessions

2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

AI-Driven Accelerator Research, Teaching and Operations (Room 2)
Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology: General (Room 5)
Advances in Advanced Reactor Fuel Fabrication and Qualification (Panel Room - Green)
Fusion Science, Technology, and Policy: II (Room 1)
Advances in Sensors and Instrumentation (Room 3)
Nuclear Fuels and Claddings (Room 4)
Mathematics and Computation Roundtable (Panel Room - Blue)
Nuclear Installations Safety: General II (Room 6)
Data Center Applications: I (Room 7)
Advanced Reactor Analysis: II (Room 8)

Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS 2026)

Risk-Informing the Design of the Next Generation of Research Reactors (Room 2)
Surrogate Models and Digital Twins (Room 1)

International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2026)

Markets and Financing I (Room 1)

1:15PM MST

Sessions

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2026)

Gas-Cooled Reactor Thermal Hydraulics: II (Room 3)
General Thermal Hydraulics (Room 1)
Thermal Hydraulics Summaries: GOTHIC Benchmarks (Room 4)
Thermal Hydraulics Abstracts: Computational Fluid Dynamics (Room 2)

3:15PM MST

Sessions

2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences: General (Room 1)
Human Factors: General (Room 3)
Advanced/Additive Manufacturing (Room 4)
Mathematics and Computation: General (Room 5)
Tom McLaughlin and his Impact on the Field (Panel Room - Green)
Data Center Applications: II (Room 7)
Computational Tools for Radiation Protection and Shielding (Room 2)
Reactor Analysis: General II (Room 8)
Deploying Robots Across the Nuclear Landscape: II (Room 6)

International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2026)

Markets and Financing II (Room 1)

Thursday — November 19, 2026

5:00AM MST

Events

Technical Tour of Palo Verde Generating Station (Meet in the hotel lobby at 6:45 am)