Call for Papers

2025 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

November 9–12, 2025  |  Washington, DC  |  Washington Hilton

EXECUTIVE CHAIRS

Program Chair

John Bess (JFoster & Assoc.)

Assistant Program Chairs

Kim Burns

Simon Pimblott (INL)

SUMMARY DEADLINES

SUBMISSION OF SUMMARIES: JUNE 24, 2025

AUTHOR NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: JULY 18, 2025

REVISED SUMMARIES DUE: JULY 31, 2025

GUIDELINES FOR SUMMARIES

Please submit summaries describing work that is new, significant, and relevant to the nuclear industry. ANS will publish all accepted and presented summaries in the TRANSACTIONS. Summaries are presented orally at the conference, and presenters are expected to register for the conference. Non–U.S. attendees requesting a visa invitation letter: registrar@ans.org. Full papers based on summaries may be published elsewhere, but the summaries become the property of ANS. Under no circumstances should a summary or full paper be published in any other publication before presentation at the ANS conference. It is the author’s responsibility to protect classified, export-controlled, or proprietary information. Submit your summary via the ANS Electronic Paper Submission and Review (EPSR) portal; see link on the left.

FORMAT AND LENGTH

  1. Use the ANS Template and Guidelines for TRANSACTIONS Summary Preparation provided on the 2025 ANS Winter Conference and Expo website. Summaries that are not based on the ANS template will be rejected.
  2. Summaries must be submitted as Adobe Acrobat PDF documents.
  3. The minimum length is one full page.
  4. The maximum length is four pages, including references, tables, and figures. Do not include a cover page. After you save your document as a PDF, verify that it is still four or fewer pages.
  5. Do not use all capital letters for the title or any part of any authors’ names. For the title of the summary, Capitalize the First Letter of Major Words. Author names should be First Name or Initial(s) followed by Last Name.
  6. Limit title to ten words; limit listing of authors to three or fewer if possible.
  7. The names of all authors should be entered into the Authors page in the EPSR. List the authors in the same order in which their names appear on the summary. The conference program will be derived from the information you enter into the EPSR.
  8. In the EPSR, authors’ affiliations should match the affiliation provided on the summary itself. If an author has multiple affiliations, enter the ONE that should be included in the program and in the conference TRANSACTIONS, assuming the summary is accepted.
  9. Do not use page numbers, headers, or footers. Do not save your PDF as “read only.”
  10. Keep the bottom margin clear so there is space for the ANS-applied footer and page number.

CONTENT

  1. Introduction: State the purpose of the work.
  2. Description of the actual work: Must be new and significant.
  3. Results: Discuss their significance.
  4. References: If any, must be closely related published works. Minimize the number of references.
  5. Do not present a bibliographical listing.
  6. If a disclaimer is required (e.g., related to the author’s employer), it is the author’s responsibility to include the disclaimer in the summary as either an end-of-summary note (preferred) or footnote. Please ensure such footnotes do not interfere with the bottom margin, and do not format disclaimers as headers or footers.

EXECUTIVE SESSIONS

Would you like to propose and arrange an Executive Session? If so, email the Program Specialist (contact information to the left). Executive Sessions take a broader look at developments in nuclear science and technology and their impact on policy and markets.

SESSION TITLES BY DIVISION (P) = Panel

1. ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS (AAD)

See embedded topical conference Accelerator Applications 2025

2. AEROSPACE NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (ANSTD)

2a. Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology: General

3. DECOMMISSIONING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (DESD)

3a. Lessons Learned: License Termination Plan Development

3b. Non-Naval Application of Nuclear Propulsion

3c. Domestic and International Decommissioning

3d. Environmental Impacts from Uranium Mining

4. EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (ETWDD)

4a. Distinguished Early Career Program for Early Career Faculty (P)

4b. ANS Student Design Competition

4c. Innovations in Nuclear Research and Development Student Competition

4d. Office of Nuclear Energy Supported Student Presentations

4e. Education, Training, and Workforce Development: General

5. FUEL CYCLE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT (FCWMD)

5a. Fuel Cycle and Waste Management: General

Also see embedded topical conference International High Level Radioactive Waste Management (IHLRWM 2025)

6. FUSION ENERGY (FED)

6a. Fusion Materials

6b. Blanket and Fuel Cycle

6c. Fusion Neutronics and Safety

6d. Fusion Modeling and Simulation

6e. Fusion: Lightning Talks (P)

7. HUMAN FACTORS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND CONTROLS (HFICD)

7a. Advances in Sensors and Instrumentation

7b. Advances in Human Factors Engineering

7c. Autonomous Control of Reactor Technologies

7d. Artificial Intelligence for I&C and Human Factors

7e. Cybersecurity in Wireless Technologies, Digital I&C, Digital Twins, and Human Factors Considerations

7f. Digital Twins and Their Applications

7g. Embedded Sensors and Additive Manufacturing for Nuclear Applications

7h. Human Reliability Analysis

7i. I&C Regulations, Standards, Aging Management, and Guidelines

7j. I&C for Space Application of Nuclear

7k. I&C and Human Factors Considerations for SMR and Advanced Reactors

7l. Large Language Models for Nuclear

7m. Online Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Prognostics

7n. Risk-informed Operation and Control

7o. Robotic Applications in Operation and Maintenance

7p. Remote Monitoring and Operation: I&C and Human Factor Considerations

7. HUMAN FACTORS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND CONTROLS (HFICD) Continued

7q. Structural Health Monitoring for Nuclear Power

7r. Challenges with Adoption of Innovation in the Nuclear Industry (P)

7s. Cybersecurity for SMRs (P)

7t. Regulation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Nuclear (P)

8. ISOTOPES AND RADIATION (IRD)

8a. Innovations in Nuclear Forensics

8b. Isotopes and Radiation: General

9. MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MSTD)

9a. Nuclear Fuels and Claddings

9b. Molten Salt Reactor Fuels and Materials

9c. Irradiation Experiments for Nuclear Materials and Fuels Research

9d. Advanced/Additive Manufacturing

9e. Environmental Degradation of Materials

9f. AI and ML Applications in Nuclear Materials

9g. High-Throughput Experimentation in Nuclear Energy Materials Research

9h. Actinide Science

9i. Curation, Distribution, and AI Augmentation of Post-Irradiation Data in Nuclear Research Data System

9j. Advanced Characterization and Simulation Techniques for Nuclear Materials

10. MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION (MCD)

10a. Current Issues in Computational Methods: Roundtable (P)

10b. Transport Methods

10c. Computational Methods and Mathematical Modeling

10d. Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis, and Machine Learning

11. NUCLEAR CRITICALITY SAFETY (NCSD)

11a. NCS for Advanced Fuels - Fabrication and Transportation

11b. Tom McLaughlin and his Impact on the Field (P)

11c. Development and Use of the ANS 8.28 Standard (P)

11d. ANS 8 Standards Forum (P)

11e. Critical and Subcritical Experiments

11f. Recent Nuclear Criticality Safety Program Technical Accomplishments

11g. Data, Analysis and Operations in Nuclear Criticality Safety

12. NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS SAFETY (NISD)

12a. Nuclear Installations Safety: General

12b. PRA for Advanced Reactors

12c. Highlights of PSA 2025 (P)

12d. Research Reactor Fuel Failure Events in HFIR and NCNR: Recovery to Normal Operations (P)

12e. An Accident Anywhere is an Accident Everywhere — Learning from Fukushima (P)

13. NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION POLICY (NNPD

See embedded topical conference Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference

14. OPERATIONS AND POWER (OPD)

14a. Operations and Power: General

14b. Advanced Nuclear Reactors and Power Systems

14c. Energy Storage Integration with Nuclear Power Plants

14d. Hybrid and Integrated Energy Systems

14e. Nuclear Energy Markets, Financing, and Economics

15. RADIATION PROTECTION AND SHIELDING (RPSD)

15a. Computational Tools for Radiation Protection and Shielding

15b. Radiation Protection and Shielding: General

15c. Radiation Protection and Shielding: Lightning Talks (P)

16. REACTOR PHYSICS (RPD)

16a. New Multiphysics Models on the NRIC Virtual Test Bed

16b. Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) Status Update (P)

16c. Leveraging MARVEL as a Microreactor Technology Testbed (P)

16d. Open-Science in Reactor Physics (P)

16e. Reactor Analysis Methods

16f. Reactor Physics Design, Validation and Operational Experience

16g. Reactor Physics of Advanced Reactors

16h. Reactor Physics of Micro Reactors for Terrestrial and Space Applications

16i. Advances in Reactor Design Methods

16j. Reactor Physics: General

16k. Reactor Physics: Lightning Talks (P)

17. ROBOTICS AND REMOTE SYSTEMS (RRSD)

17a. Robotics and Remote Systems: General

17b. Advancements in Robotics and Remote Systems (P)

18. THERMAL HYDRAULICS (THD)

18a. Increased Enrichment, High Burnup Fuels, Power Uprates (P)

18b. Thermal Hydraulics of Small Modular Reactors (P)

18c. Thermal Hydraulics of Microreactors (P)

18d. 60th Anniversary of Nuclear Technology

18e. AI/ML Applications in Thermal Hydraulics

18f. Thermal Hydraulic Challenges in Multiphysics Simulations

18g. Thermal Hydraulic Challenges and Opportunities in Microreactors

18h. Thermal Hydraulic Research and Challenges in Advanced Fuels

18i. OECD/NEA AI/ML Benchmark on Critical Heat Flux

18j. Thermal Hydraulics: General

18k. Advanced Reactor Thermal Hydraulics

18l. Experimental Thermal Hydraulics

18m. Computational Thermal Hydraulics

18n. Computational Multiphase Flow

18o. Experimental Multiphase Flow

18p. Young Professionals Competition


TECHNICAL DIVISION LEADERSHIP

ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS (AAD)

Lin Shao, lshao@tamu.edu

Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology (ANSTD)

Jeffrey King, jking@tntech.edu

DECOMMISSIONING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (DESD)

Dustin Miller, DMiller@TerranearPMC.com

Jim Byrne, jbyrne4424@comcast.net

Education, training, and workforce development (etwdd)

Kyle Hartig, hartig@mse.ufl.edu

Fuel Cycle and Waste Management (FCWMD)

Kaushik Banerjee, kaushik.banerjee@inl.gov

FUSION ENERGY (FED)

Tommy Fuerst, Thomas.Fuerst@inl.gov

Paul Humrickhouse, humrickhoupw@ornl.gov

Lauren Garrison, lgarrison@cfs.energy

Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Controls (HFICD)

Vivek Agarwal, vivek.agarwal@inl.gov

Isotopes and Radiation (IRD)

Igor Jovanovic, ijov@umich.edu

Kenan Unlu, K-unlu@psu.edu

Materials Science and Technology (MSTD)

Jake Quincey, quinceyj@oregonstate.edu

Kenneth Geelhood, Kenneth.Geelhood@pnnl.gov

Mathematics and Computation (MCD)

Koroush Shirvan, kshirvan@mit.edu

Sebastian Schunert, s.schunert@gmail.com

NUCLEAR CRITICALITY SAFETY (NCSD)

Ben Martin, benm15151@gmail.com

Amy Van Der Vyver,
amy.vandervyver@sellafieldsites.com

Nuclear Installations Safety (NISD)

Yunfei Zhao, yzhao111@umd.edu

Mihai A. Diaconeasa, madiacon@ncsu.edu

Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy (NNPD)

Tom Hanlon, hanlonte@gmail.com

Angela Di Fulvio, difulvio@illinois.edu

Shikha Prasad, shikhapr@gmail.com

Operations and Power (OPD)

W. Neal Mann, wmann@anl.gov

Radiation Protection and Shielding (RPSD)

Irina Popova, popovai@ornl.gov

Tucker McClanahan, mcclanahantc@ornl.gov

Reactor Physics (RPD)

Zeyun Wu, zwu@vcu.edu

Robotics and Remote Systems (RRSD)

Adam Carroll, carrollaj@ornl.gov

Young Park, ypark@anl.gov

THERMAL HYDRAULICS (THD)

Dillon Shaver, dshaver@anl.gov

Izabela Gutowska, izabela.gutowska@oregonstate.edu

Drew Ryan, Drew.Ryan1@unnpp.gov

Young Members Group (YMG)

Evan Gonzalez, gonzalez121@llnl.gov

Pierre-Clement Simon, PierreClement.Simon@inl.gov

SUBMIT A PAPER OR ABSTRACT

https://epsr.ans.org/meeting/?m=378

PROGRAM SPECIALIST

Isabel Brinker
708-579-8290
ibrinker@ans.org