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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 RPD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
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Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Staff Producer:
Jay Bogardus (American Nuclear Society)
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Triangle-based Quasi-diffusion Nodal Method for Fast Reactor Analysis
Muhammad R. Oktavian (Purdue University), Yunlin Xu (Purdue University)
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Burnup-dependent GPS Method with Leakage Correction and Spectral Weighting in Core Depletion Analysis
Haesun Jeong (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute), Hwanyeal Yu (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Yonghee Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Initial Control Rod Depletion Development in MPACT
Aaron J. Reynolds (Oregon State University), Shane G. Stimpson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Aaron M. Graham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Krylov Subspace Wraps around the Two-Level p-CMFD Acceleration in the Whole-Core Transport Calculation
Nam Zin Cho (KAIST)
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Fuel Rod Analysis Programming Interface for a Tightly Coupled Multiphysics System
Alexey Cherezov (UNIST), Hanjoo Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Jinsu Park (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
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