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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Shifting the paradigm of supply chain
Chad Wolf
When I began my nuclear career, I was coached up in the nuclear energy culture of the day to “run silent, run deep,” a mindset rooted in the U.S. Navy’s submarine philosophy. That was the norm—until Fukushima.
The nuclear renaissance that many had envisioned hit a wall. The focus shifted from expansion to survival. Many utility communications efforts pivoted from silence to broadcast, showcasing nuclear energy’s elegance and reliability. Nevertheless, despite being clean baseload 24/7 power that delivered a 90 percent capacity factor or higher, nuclear energy was painted as risky and expensive (alongside energy policies and incentives that favored renewables).
Economics became a driving force threatening to shutter nuclear power. The Delivering the Nuclear Promise initiative launched in 2015 challenged the industry to sustain high performance yet cut costs by up to 30 percent.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
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J. Rory Kennedy
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Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Jessie Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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In situ defect accumulation and radiation hardening in Commercially Pure Titanium and Ti-6Al-4V(wt.%)
Aida Amroussia (General Electric Global Research), Wei Y. Chen (Intermediate Voltage Electron Microscopy (IVEM)-Tandem Facility), Memei Li (Intermediate Voltage Electron Microscopy (IVEM)-Tandem Facility), Thomas Bieler (Michigan State University), Wolfgang Mittig (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory), David Grummon (Michigan State University), Frederique Pellemoine (Fermilab), Carl Boehlert (Michigan State University)
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TEM Study of Nickel under In-situ Helium/Krypton Dual-Beam Irradiation
Meimei Li (Argonne National Laboratory), Wei-Ying Chen (Argonne National Laboratory)
Ion irradiation effects in face-centered cubic complex concentrated solid solution alloys at high temperature
Calvin A. Parkin (University of Wisconsin Madison), Adrien Couet (University of Wisconsin- Madison), Mukesh Bachhav (Idaho National Laboratory), Lingfeng He (Idaho National Laboratory), Kumar Sridharan (University of Wisconsin- Madison), Mohamed Elbakhshwan (University of Wisconsin- Madison), Michael Moorehead (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
TEM and APT Characterization of Neutron Irradiated AXIOM-2(X2)®
Adrien Couet (University of Wisconsin Madison), Lingfeng He (Idaho National Laboratory), Mukesh Bachhav (Idaho National Lab), Zefeng Yu (University of Wisconsin Madison)
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