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2021 ANS Virtual Annual Meeting
June 14–16, 2021
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GAIN’s leadership begins with the end in mind
Christine King is director of the DOE’s GAIN
The possibilities of new advanced nuclear for the future are undeniably exciting. For me, nuclear energy has provided a career filled with lifelong learning and a global community interested in collaboration. Not every industry is fortunate in this regard. As I look to this exciting future of nuclear, I keep coming back to this advice: “Begin with the end in mind.”
In November 2015, the Department of Energy established the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) for just that purpose. At GAIN, we get up every day to imagine what nuclear could be and identify concrete actions we can take to turn vision into reality. No doubt we have a long way to go, but a lot has changed in the short period of time since GAIN’s inception. Today, we are designing demonstration units to build within this decade. Soon, we will be commercializing and deploying these technologies.
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12:00–2:10PM (1:00–3:10PM EST)
Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Session Chair: Arkady Serikov
Session Chair: Xin Xiao
Session Chair: David Rasmussen
2:40–4:50PM (3:40–5:50PM EST)
Session Chair: Dennis Youchison
Session Chair: Juan Caneses
Session Chair: Peter Titus
11:00AM–1:10PM (12:00–2:10PM EST)
Session Chair: Robert Duckworth
Session Chair: Anita Poore
Session Chair: Greg Wallace
1:40–3:20PM (2:40–4:20PM EST)
Session Chair: Joseph Petrella
Session Chair: Daniel Andruczyk
Session Chair: Yutai Katoh
3:50–5:30PM (4:50–6:30PM EST)
Session Chair: David Senor
Session Chair: Lauren Garrison
Session Chair: Arnie Lumsdaine
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
11:15AM–1:00PM (12:15–2:00PM EST)
Session Chair: Trey Gebhardt
Session Chair: Zeke Unterberg
Session Chair: Oleg Zikanov
1:30–3:15PM (2:30–4:15PM EST)
Session Chair: Andrew Seltzman
Session Chair: Phil Ferguson