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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections
Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050—reaching 2.6 times the 2024 level—with small modular reactors expected to play a pivotal role in this high-case scenario.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi announced the new projections, contained in the annual report Energy, Electricity, and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2050 at the 69th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
In the report’s high-case scenario, nuclear electrical generating capacity is projected to increase to from 377 GW at the end of 2024 to 992 GW by 2050. In a low-case scenario, capacity rises 50 percent, compared with 2024, to 561 GW. SMRs are projected to account for 24 percent of the new capacity added in the high case and for 5 percent in the low case.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 16, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Robert C. Duckworth
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Measuring the Quench Dynamics and Propagation of the VIPER High Temperature Superconducting Cable
Erica Salazar (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Zachary Hartwig (MIT), Philip Michael (Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
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Ultra-High Field Superconductors for Compact Fusion Magnets
Venkat Selvamanickam (Univ. Houston)
Development of High-Temperature Superconducting CORC® Cables and Demountable Joints for Fusion Magnets
Danko van d. Laan (Advanced Conductor Technologies), Jeremy Weiss (Advanced Conductor Technologies), Kyle Radcilff (Advanced Conductor Technologies), Tim Mulder (CERN), Alexey Dudarev (CERN), Herman t. Kate (Univ. Twente), Xiaorong Wang (Berkeley Lab), Yuhu Zhai (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Steve Allen (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Frank Schoofs (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Jack Greenwood (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Julian Holt (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), U.P. Trociewitz (Applied Superconductivity Center), D. Abraimov (Applied Superconductivity Center), D.S. Davis (Applied Superconductivity Center), L.D. Cooley (Applied Superconductivity Center), D.C. Larbalestier (Applied Superconductivity Center)
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Doppler Backscattering: A Powerful Plasma Turbulence and Flow Diagnostic
Lothar Schmitz (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Diagnostic Focus on C-2W Results
Thomas Roche (TAE Technologies)
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