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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 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Brent D. Shumaker
Alternate Chair:
Katrina M. Groth
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
Staff Producer:
Rick Michal (American Nuclear Society)
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Integrated Operations for Nuclear - ION
Kenneth D. Thomas (Idaho National Laboratory), S. J. Remer (Remer Consulting)
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On the Formalization of Development and Assessment Process for Digital Twins in the Nearly Autonomous Management and Control System
Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State University), Han Bao (Idaho National Laboratory), Linyu Lin (North Carolina State University)
Development and Assessment of Physics-guided Machine Learning for Prognosis System
Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State University), Linyu Lin (North Carolina State University), Anil Gurgen (North Carolina State University)
Quantitative Reasoning and Risk Assessment with Dynamic Bayesian Network
Junyung Kim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Equipping Machine Learning with Uncertainty Quantification to Update Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants using NRC Licensee Event Reports
Zahra Mohaghegh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Catherine Blake (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Seyed Reihani (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Justin Pence (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Pegah Farshadmanesh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jaemin Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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