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Full Schedule

Below is the current preliminary schedule. Please note this schedule is subject to change. Check back often!

All times list are in U.S. Central Standard Time

Full Schedule

  • Thursday, July 31, 2025
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM CST
    Registration Open
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM CST
    Speaker Ready Room Open
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CST
    Speakers' Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 8:25 AM CST
    Plenary Session: Together, We’re Carrying Everyone’s Future
  • 8:25 AM - 8:50 AM CST
    Plenary Session: Transforming the Back End of the U.S. Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Companions' Program Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – OPS: Leveling Up: Engaging Technologies to Enhance Training
    Chair: Brendan L. Nation – Sandia National Labs
    Co-Chair: Tony Brown – AWE
  • 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM CST
    Concurrent Panel Session – Transportation Security & Insider Threat Mitigation

    Chair: Matthew Klatt, N/A – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    Panelist: Justin R. Kinney – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    Panelist: Mark David Wald-Hopkins – Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Panelist: Ben Whittard – Nuclear Transport Solutions

    Panelist: Athula Daulagala

  • 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: New & Modified Packaging Design III
    Chair: Joel Kruehler – Urenco
    Co-Chair: Makoto Hirose – National Maritime Research Institute
  • 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: Shielding and Dose Calculations in Transport Packages
    Chair: Hiroaki Taniuchi – Transnuclear Ltd.
    Co-Chair: Mustafa Hadj-Nacer, Ph.D. – University of Nevada Reno
  • 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – REG: Transport Topics: Onsite and Liability
    Chair: Ximena Vasquez-Maignan – White & Case
    Co-Chair: Douglas Thacker, Professional Engineer – Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CST
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM CST
    Refreshment Break
  • 10:40 AM - 11:20 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – OPS: International Perspectives – Contents Specific
    Chair: Rajesh Garg – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
    Co-Chair: Kuniharu Kinoshita – WNTI
  • 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: Computational Modeling for Certification
    Chair: Michael Starr – Sandia National Laboratories
    Co-Chair: Hirotaka Nojima – Nuclear Fuel Transport Co., Ltd.
  • 10:40 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: Containment & Leak Testing
    Chair: Steven E. Sisley – NAC International
    Co-Chair: Aurélie Merle-Szeremeta – ASNR
  • 10:40 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – OPS: Maintenance
    Chair: Peter Vescovi – Orano TN -Americaa
    Co-Chair: Paul S. Blanton, BSME – Paragon D&E
  • 10:40 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – REG: Advances for Transport of ATF and HALEU
    Chair: Cecil Parks – Boston Government Services
    Co-Chair: Eric Letang – ASNR
  • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
    Lunch on Own
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: Containment Design & Sensing in RAM Packaging
    Chair: Adam McConaghy – Croft Associates
    Co-Chair: Aleksandr Gelfond – EnergySolutions LLC
  • 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM CST
    Concurrent Panel Session – Design: ASME Guidance Document for Explicit Dynamics
  • 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – OPS: Large Objects-Maritime
    Chair: Daiichiro Ito – NFT
    Co-Chair: Elisa Penda – WNTI
  • 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – REG: On the Road Again: Land-based Microreactor Transport
    Chair: Marc Fialkoff – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Co-Chair: Scott Edwards – Core Power
  • 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – SEC: Workforces and Regime Development
    Chair: Kimberly Anderson – CNS Y12 NSC
    Co-Chair: Jim Shuler – Consultant
  • 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM CST
    Refreshment Break
  • 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – OPS: Microreactors and Space Powers
    Chair: David Pstrak – US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
    Co-Chair: Steve Maheras – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • 3:40 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Concurrent Panel Session – RAM Packaging on the World Stage
  • 3:40 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: Computational Modeling for Drop Test Characterization
    Chair: ANDREW LANGSTON – Westinghouse Electric Company
    Co-Chair: Tobias Gleim, Dr. – Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
  • 3:40 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: Containment & Leak Testing of Packages
    Chair: Emmanuel Rigaut – ASND
    Co-Chair: Paul "Brad" B. Shaw, ASNT NDT Level III – Leak Testing Specialists, Inc.
  • 3:40 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – REG: Transport of RAM by Sea
    Chair: Hirotaka Nojima – Nuclear Fuel Transport Co., Ltd.
    Co-Chair: Benjamin Ruprecht – Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE)
  • 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM CST
    PATRAM 2025 Gala