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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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).”
Plenary Session
Wednesday, October 9, 2024|10:30AM–12:00PM MDT|Arena
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The promise of practical fusion energy is a common theme in the news today. There are government funded activities as well as privately-funded activities, with investment in the latter growing to over seven billion U.S. dollars. Fusion energy promises to provide clean and globally accessible energy. This panel, representing both government and private entities, will discuss the challenges to deployment of fusion energy, and how those challenges can be overcome, as well the potential timelines to realization of practical fusion energy.
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