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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.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Monday, November 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
Seth King (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Chris Camphouse (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Advances in Sensitivity Analysis for Repository Performance Assessment: Examples from the International JOSA Exercise
1:00–1:20PM MST
Dirk-Alexander Becker (GRS), Sabine M. Spiessl (GRS)
Paper
A Comparison of Uncertainty Quantification Methods for Modelling Radionuclide Transport in Nuclear Waste Disposal Systems
1:20–1:40PM MST
Merle Bjorge (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung), Aqeel Afzal Chaudhry (Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg), Wolfram Rühaak (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung), Thomas Nagel (Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg)
Multimodel Methods for Uncertainty Quantification of Repository Systems
1:40–2:00PM MST
Teresa Portone (Sandia), Michael Eldred (Sandia), Gianluca Geraci (Sandia), Laura Swiler (Sandia)
Beyond Kd: Next Generation Performance Assessment Framework Through Machine Learning
2:00–2:20PM MST
Haruko Wainwright (MIT), Elliot Chang (LLNL), Dinara Ermakova (Univ. California, Berkeley), Hannah Lu (Stanford Univ.), Linda Beverly (California State Univ., East Bay), Michael Nole (Sandia), Mavrik Zavarin (LLNL), Omotayo Omosebi (LBNL), Liange Zheng (LBNL)
Natural Analogue Studies in Support of Post-Closure Safety Assessment of Deep Geological Disposal
2:20–2:40PM MST
Zhenze Li (CNSC), Thanh Son Nguyen (CNSC), Matthew Herod (CNSC), Julie Brown (CNSC), Hamed Mozafarishamsi (Univ. Ottawa), Ian Clark (Univ. Ottawa)
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