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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 MSTD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Cynthia A. Adkins
Alternate Chair:
Colby B. Jensen
Session Organizer:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Staff Producer:
Jessie Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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High Temperature Deformation Processes in Additively Manufactured 316L Stainless Steel
Meimei Li (Argonne National Laboratory), Kurt Terrani (ORNL), T.S. Byun (ORNL), Florent Heidet (ANL), Wei-Ying Chen (ANL), Xuan Zhang (ANL)
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Deformation and Fracture Characteristics of Additively Manufactured and Wrought 316L Stainless Steels before and after Irradiation
Kurt A. Terrani (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Timothy G. Lach (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Joseph J. Simpson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Benton Garrison (ORNL), Maxim Gussev (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Thak Sang Byun (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Initial Irradiation Tests on the TCR Fuel Form at MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Gokul Vasudevamurthy (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Chemistry Effects on α' precipitation in FeCrAl Alloys
Russell M. Fawcett (Global Nuclear Fuel), Dan Lutz (Global Nuclear Fuel - Americas), Soumya Nag (GE Research), Raul B. Rebak (GE Research), Andrew K. Hoffman (GE Global Research Center)
EFFECT OF HYDRIDE ON CRACK GROWTH IN ZIRCONIUM ALLOY BY EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION
Huaping Dong (Science and Technology on Reactor System Design Technology Laboratory), Meng Huo (Science and Technology on Reactor System Design Technology Laboratory), Ximing Xie (Science and Technology on Reactor System Design Technology Laboratory), Lili Liu (Science and Technology on Reactor System Design Technology Laboratory), Hua Pang (Science and Technology on Reactor System Design Technology Laboratory), Xiaoming Song (Science and Technology on Reactor System Design Technology Laboratory), Liang Chen (Nuclear Power Institute of China)
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