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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Amended DOE standard contract reduces SNF responsibility, report says
While changes the Department of Energy made to its standard contract for accepting spent nuclear fuel may help reduce federal liabilities, they provide “little to no assurance” that the government will ever follow through on its promise to take possession of the fuel, according to commentary from Matt Bowen and Rama T. Ponangi of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|12:15–2:00PM EST
Session Chair:
Erin Wehlage (Studsvik Scandpower)
Alternate Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (The University of Texas at Austin)
Staff Producer:
Paul LaTour (American Nuclear Society)
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Economic assessment of ABWR, SCWR and SMART by using G4-ECONS code
Salah Ud-Din Khan (Sustainable Energy Technologies Center)
Paper
Modeling Operations and Maintenance Planning Decisions Under Uncertainty Using Bayesian Networks
Ryan M. Spangler (University of Pittsburgh), Lee T. Maccarone (University of Pittsburgh), Daniel G. Cole (University of Pittsburgh)
Economic Ramifications of Nuclear Load-Following in an ERCOT-like Market under High Renewables Penetration and Energy Policies
Kathryn Biegel (Argonne National Laboratory), Nicolas E. Stauff (Argonne National Laboratory), Todd Levin (Argonne National Laboratory), Taek Kyum Kim (Argonne National Laboratory), Temitope A. Taiwo (Argonne National Laboratory)
A Multi-Criteria Benefit Evaluation Methodology Applied to FLEX Strategies in Nuclear Power Plants
Sai Zhang (INL), Zhegang Ma (INL), Hongbin Zhang (INL)
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