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May 31–June 3, 2026
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Tempering ambition
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
I spent a fair amount of time over the holiday break pondering the makings of a good year for nuclear technology in 2026.
Last year was white-hot. Between the fundamental upward shift in domestic electricity demand, the continuing proliferation of data center projects in all corners of the U.S., the increasingly voracious appetite of the financial markets for nuclear investment, and the Trump administration’s full-throttle approach to nuclear policy, 2025 will likely be remembered as a significant, positive inflection point in the history of the harnessed atom.
I hope 2026 will be even better, but for it to be so, it will have to be different. It needs a seriousness about it, a scrape of the froth. Advanced nuclear energy technology is in a hardening phase at the moment, where the green shoots of innovation must now grow into robust commercial enterprises capable of scaling quickly and safely. Not everyone will succeed.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Robert E. Grove
Alternate Chair:
Steven P. Hamilton
Session Organizer:
Brian C. Kiedrowski
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (American Nuclear Society)
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Efficient implementation of 3D Multi-group Neutron Diffusion with Multi-Level CMFD acceleration
Shunjiang Tao (Purdue University), Yunlin Xu (Purdue University)
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Particle Tracking Optimization for Boolean Solids in JCOGIN
Xin Wang (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics), Wei Wang (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics), Baoyin Zhang (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics), Li Deng (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics), Peng Liu (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics)
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Monte Carlo Acceleration Techniques Applied in Well Logging Radiation Detection
Qiong Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Yulian Li (UESTC)
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