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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Energy Secretary to speak at the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
In less than two weeks, the American Nuclear Society’s second annual conference of the year, the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo, will come to Washington, D.C.
Today, ANS is announcing that Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be joining the list of nuclear leaders slated to speak at the conference.
Click here to register for the meeting, which will take place November 9–12 in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton. Be sure to do so before November 7 to take advantage of priority pricing.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Georgetown East
Session Chair:
DeLeah Lockridge (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Steve Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Session Organizer:
William N. Mann
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Current Irradiation Capabilities Within United States for Advanced Reactor Development
3:15–3:35PM EST
Braden Clayton (Brigham Young Univ.), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Misti Lillo (INL)
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Expert Elicitation for Collection of Stakeholder Input for a Molten Salt Sampling System Design
3:35–3:55PM EST
Megan Harkema (Vanderbilt Univ.), Steve Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Paul Marotta (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Community Engagement for Nuclear Energy Projects: Lessons from Participatory Design
3:55–4:15PM EST
Peter Wacnik (Univ. Michigan), Shanna Daly (Univ. Michigan), Aditi Verma (Univ. Michigan)
Nuclear Energy in Rural Alaska? Path Forward by Addressing Past Negative Events
4:15–4:35PM EST
Haruko M. Wainwright (MIT), Amandeep Singh (MIT), Adam Low (Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks), J. Ali Hanks (Univ. California, Berkeley), Brian Powell (Clemson Univ.), Richelle Johnson (Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks), Diane Hirshberg (Univ. Alaska, Anchorage), Gwen Holdmann (Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks)
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