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Schedule

  • Wednesday, August 27, 2025
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Speaker Ready Room Open
  • 7:20 AM - 7:50 AM EDT
    Speaker Breakfast
  • 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM EDT
    Plenary Session: Engaging with Advanced Reactor Industry Stakeholders
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    31 - Panel: Geological Repository Safeguards
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    32 - Panel: Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology – The Nexus between Articles III and IV of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    33 - IAEA Perspectives on New Safeguards Concepts & Approaches
    Session Chair: Carrie Mathews – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Ruth Smith – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    34 - Holdup Measurements and New Holdup Challenges (Part 1)
    Session Chair: Christopher Orton – Savannah River National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Manit D. Shah, PhD (he/him/his) – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    35 - Algorithmic & Machine Learning Analysis for Security & Protection
    Session Chair: Adam Williams – Sandia National Laboratories
    Session Chair: Taylor Hart-McGonigle – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
    Exhibits Open
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT
    Break / Visit Exhibits
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    37 - Innovations and Opportunities for AI in Safeguards
    Session Chair: Joshua Rutkowski – Sandia National Laboratories
    Session Chair: Yonggang Cui – Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    38 - Arms Control
    Session Chair: Shavawn Bell-Jenkins – Sandia National Laboratories
    Session Chair: Birdy Phathanapirom (she/her/hers) – Oak Ridge National Lab
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    39 - Lessons from the Field: Security & Protection Experiences from Around the World III
    Session Chair: Jairus Hines – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Kristina Hatcher – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    40 - Holdup Measurements and New Holdup Challenges (Part 2)
    Session Chair: Christopher Orton – Savannah River National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Callie Goetz – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    41 - Spent and Fresh Fuel
    Session Chair: Jimmy Toliuszis – NAC International
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    42 - Tools and Strategies for Nuclear Materials Management
    Session Chair: Jeff Allender – Savannah River National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Julie Gostic – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 12:10 PM - 1:40 PM EDT
    Lunch on Your Own
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    43 - Panel: Culture Analysis & Change for NMM
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    44 - 2- and 3-S Approaches
    Session Chair: Jeremy Whitlock, PhD – IAEA Safeguards (ret'd)
    Session Chair: Bego Aranguren – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    45 - Considerations for Securing Advanced & Small Modular Reactors II
    Session Chair: Matthew Zerphy – Penn State University
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    46 - Neutron Nondestructive Assay (Part 1)
    Session Chair: Anthony Belian – Savannah River National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Oskar Searfus – Sandia National Laboratories
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    47 - Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analytics
    Session Chair: Hank Zhu – National Nuclear Security Administration
    Session Chair: Sunil Chirayath – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 3:20 PM - 3:50 PM EDT
    Break
  • 3:50 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
    49 - AI & Autonomy for Security & Protection
    Session Chair: Nick Roth – Nuclear Threat Initiative
    Session Chair: Christopher Ramos, PhD – DOE/NNSA
  • 3:50 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
    50 - Panel: Safeguards at Remote Nuclear Facilities
  • 3:50 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
    51 - Disarmament and Verification
    Session Chair: Tim Ashenfelter – Argonne National Laboratory
  • 3:50 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
    52 - Neutron Nondestructive Assay (Part 2)
    Session Chair: Anthony Belian – Savannah River National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Rachel C. Connick, PhD (she/her/hers) – Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 3:50 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
    53 - Lessons from the Field: Security & Protection Experiences from Around the World IV
    Session Chair: Corey Hinderstein – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • 3:50 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
    54 - New Challenges, New Nuclear Security Concepts & Approaches
    Session Chair: Daniel Hartman – LIS Technologies Inc
    Session Chair: Leah Cohen – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 5:40 PM - 6:30 PM EDT
    Annual Business Meeting
  • 6:45 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
    Chapter Relations Interest Meeting