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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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TerraPower begins construction on Natrium power plant in Kemmerer
Construction has officially begun on TerraPower’s first Natrium power plant, in Kemmerer, Wyo. The company expects this demonstration facility—featuring a 345-MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with an integrated molten salt–based heat storage system, which can temporarily boost power output to 500 MWe—to become the first “utility-scale advanced nuclear power plant” in the United States.
1:00–3:10PM EST
Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Session Chair: Xin Xiao
Session Chair: David Rasmussen
Session Chair: Arkady Serikov
3:40–5:50PM EST
Session Chair: Peter Titus
Session Chair: Dennis Youchison
Session Chair: Juan Caneses
12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair: Robert Duckworth
Session Chair: Anita Poore
Session Chair: Greg Wallace
2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair: Joseph Petrella
Session Chair: Daniel Andruczyk
Session Chair: Yutai Katoh
4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair: David Senor
Session Chair: Arnie Lumsdaine
Session Chair: Lauren Garrison
Session Chair: Yuhu Zhai
Session Chair: Tim Bohm
Session Chair: Ales Necas
Session Chair: R. Patrick White
Session Chair: Sergey Smolentsev
Session Chair: Peter Dugan
Session Chair: Nicholas Santoro
Panel|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Session Chair: Ales Necas|Alternate Chair: Abbey Goodman
12:15–2:00PM EST
Session Chair: Oleg Zikanov
Session Chair: Trey Gebhardt
Session Chair: Zeke Unterberg
2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair: Andrew Seltzman
Session Chair: Phil Ferguson