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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS Winter Conference: DOE, NRC leaders stress need for speedier nuclear approval
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Chris Wright
During speeches at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference & Expo, happening this week in Washington, D.C., Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair David Wright both promised that the Trump administration will speed up nuclear reviews so the U.S. can maintain leadership in nuclear energy.
The DOE’s Wright took a stab at the NRC’s traditionally slow bureaucratic processes in approving primarily large light water reactors in the past, saying that the agency needs to speed up to meet the greater demand for new small modular reactors.
ANS Chicago and Michigan-Ohio Section Event
February 15, 2024|6:00–7:00PM (7:00–8:00PM EST)
Available to All Users
The ANS Chicago and Michigan-Ohio Sections invite you to hear presentations from advanced-degree students within their sections. Featured presentations and speakers include:
Fault Tree Analysis of an Innovative Thermal Power Dispatch System for Nuclear Power PlantsVinicius Zanardo Rodrigues, PhD Candidate, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University
A Radical New Approach to Etching Plasma Diagnostics: Measuring Fluorine RadicalsJeremy Mettler, MSc Candidate, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Development of Tapered Specimens for Accelerated Ion Irradiation Creep Testing of 316SSMackenzie Warwick, PhD Candidate, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, The University of Michigan
