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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Deploying nuclear power: Financing, risk, and execution in the current market environment
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The renewed global interest in nuclear power is often framed as a policy story driven by decarbonization goals, energy security concerns, and surging electricity demand from digital infrastructure and electrification. While these forces are real and durable, they materially understate the challenge at hand. The practical constraint on nuclear deployment today is not strategic will, but execution. Specifically, the challenge lies in how nuclear projects are financed, how risk is allocated, and how investors assess credibility in a sector defined by long timelines and asymmetric downside risk.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Nuclear Fuel Cycles
Wednesday, December 13, 2023|8:00–9:40AM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Stephen T. Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell)
Alternate Chair:
Sarah C. Finkeldei (Univ. California, Irvine)
Track Organizers:
Jie Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Yong Yang (Univ. Florida)
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Studying Solvation Structure of Metallic Impurities with Machine Learning Molecular Dynamics Enhanced EXAFS
8:00–8:20AM CST
Stephen Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Nicholas Marcella (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rajni Chahal (ORNL), Anatoly Frenkel (Stony Brook Univ.)
Paper
Determination of Hydrogen and Oxygen Impurities in Chloride Salts via Combustion Analysis
8:20–8:40AM CST
Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Brian Carpman (Univ. Michigan), Mohammad Umar Farooq Khan (Univ. Michigan), Vyomini Vakil (Univ. Michigan), Stephen Raiman (Univ. Michigan)
Hold Up of Fuel and Model Fission Products in Fluoride Salts
8:40–9:00AM CST
D.J. Macias (Univ. Michigan), S. Raiman (Univ. Michigan)
Internal Gelation Studies Relevant to Nuclear Fuel: Neodymium Oxide
9:00–9:20AM CST
J. Granger-Jones (Univ. California, Irvine), J. Matthews (Zeno Power), S.C. Finkeldei (Univ. California, Irvine)
Ionic Radii in the Actinide Dioxides
9:20–9:40AM CST
Romain Vauchy (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shun Hirooka (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Tatsutoshi Murakami (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
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