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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
ANS Chicago-Great Lakes Local Section Event
December 5, 2024|7:00–8:00PM (8:00–9:00PM EST)
Available to All Users
On September 20, 2019, the Three Mile Island Unit 1 generating station shutdown for economic reasons, despite being one of the best performing plants on the grid. Exactly five years later, Constellation Energy Generation (CEG) announced the unit would re-start as the Crane Clean Energy Center (CCEC), including a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft to power Microsoft’s growing artificial intelligence (AI) and data center portfolio.
During an ANS Chicago-Great Lakes Local Section hybrid event, Trevor Orth, Plant Manager of Crane Clean Energy Center, and Darani Reddick, Director, Nuclear Regulatory Strategy & Policy, Constellation Energy Generation, LLC, discussed the technical aspects of the restart including the material condition and improvements, and touch on the still-evolving relicensing and regulatory environment.